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tote

1. (loan) (verb) (-a) to salt, add salt.

He mea tote aua ika (TW 5/1/1877:4). / Those fish are salted.

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2. (loan) (modifier) salted.

Ka rite hoki ia ki te manoao i te koraha, e kore hoki e kite i te putanga mai o te pai; engari ko ngā wāhi waikore o te koraha hei kāinga mōna, he whenua tote, e kore nei e nohoia (PT Heremaia 17:6). / For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.

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3. (loan) (noun) salt.

Haria mai te tote mā tā tāua manuhiri. / Bring the salt for our visitors, please.

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Synonyms: whakatote

whakatote

1. (loan) (verb) (-tia) to salt, add salt, cure, preserve - with salt or brine.

Māehe 8.- 'Kahere' 14 tana, ki Mangarangi, 200 pāuna rīwai, 1 kāho kai whakatote, 30 pāuna whao, 112 pāuna tote (TKM 14/3/1850:2). / March 8.- 'Gazelle', 14 tons, for Mangarangi, with 2 cwt. potatoes, 1 cask salted meat, 30 lbs. nails, 1 cwt. salt.

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Synonyms: tote, rongoā, whakauka, rokiroki, tohu, tohutohu, rarawe, whakapounamu

mina-tote

1. (adjective) (food) salted.

mātaitai

1. (verb) to be brackish, tasting of salt, salty.

He mātaitai te wai o tēnei kāinga (W 1971:187). / The water of this village is brackish.

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Synonyms: kurutai, kurutaitai, totetote


2. (noun) seafood, shellfish - fish or other food obtained from the sea.

Ko te kaupapa o te haere ko te kohi tote, me te kohi anga mātaitai pērā i te tupa (HM 2/2009:10). / The purpose of the trip was to gather salt and sea shells such as the scallop.

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Synonyms: kaimoana, kai moana


3. (noun) salinity, saline.

Nā te mātaitai o te moana i kore ai e piro tōna wai (KO 15/6/1882:3). / Sea water does not become stagnant because of its salinity.

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kōura

1. (noun) salt-water crayfish, the southern rock lobster, red rock lobster, spiny rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii - a species of spiny lobster found throughout coastal waters of southern Australia and New Zealand including the Chatham Islands.

Ka nui te whaikōrero, ka tukua te kai, arā, te tuna, te inanga, te kōura, te toitoi (JPS 1901:74). / After a lot of speech-making, food was presented, that is eels, whitebait, crayfish and giant bully.

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Synonyms: matapara, kōura papatea


2. (noun) packhorse rock lobster, Jasus verreauxi - found in the north and east of the North Island, live around rocky reefs at depths of 5 to 275m. Larger and have a slightly greener colour than rock lobster (crayfish). Distinguished by its much larger body size, smoother tail and its very broad carapace.

Synonyms: pawharu


3. (noun) North Island freshwater crayfish, Paranephrops planifrons, South Island freshwater crayfish, Paranephrops zealandicus - found in native forest, exotic forest, and pastoral waterways, but very rarely in urban streams because of chemical pollution, increased flood flows from stormwater inputs, and degradation of habitat.

Synonyms: koeke, kēkēwai, kēwai

pāhare

1. (noun) (chemistry) salt.

totenga

1. (loan) (noun) salting, curing.

He mea nui anō tēnā te tote i te pata; tēnei anō ia ngā ritenga mō te totenga (TKM 30/8/1849:2). / The salting of the butter is important; but this is the method for curing.

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mina-tote

1. (adjective) (food) corned.

raumangu

1. (noun) selliera, Selliera radicans - a native plant of salt meadows, rocks and dune hollows and the edges of some inland streams and lakes. Has fleshy, flattened, club-shaped leaves and many white, lop-sided half-flowers in spring to summer and forms carpets.

See also remuremu

Synonyms: remuremu, rekoreko

horokaka

1. (noun) New Zealand ice-plant, Disphyma australe - a native plant with green to wine red, succulent, three-angled leaves and white to deep pink flowers. Its sprawling nature forms a mat and is found on coastal cliffs, salt meadows and sometimes behind sandy beaches.

korowhāwhā

1. (noun) anchovy, Engraulis antipodum - a small shoaling fish of commercial importance as a food and as bait. Strongly flavoured and is usually preserved in salt and oil.

See also kokowhāwhā

moho

1. (noun) North Island takahē, notornis, Porphyrio mantelli - extinct flightless endemic bird that looks like a large pūkeko with a greenish back. Sometimes used for the rare South Island takahē.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 108;)

He mea māhanga te katatai, me te moho (TW 11/9/1875:211). / The banded rail and the takahē were snared.

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See also takahē

Synonyms: tokohea, takahea, takahē


2. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.

motarua

1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.

nahui

1. (noun) nahui, Alternanthera nahui - a perennial herb of coastal to lowland of seasonally to permanently wet habitats such as lagoon, lake, pond, river, and stream margins. It has also been recorded growing within the lag zone and around burn pools of oligotrophicpeat bogs in Northland and Waikato, and from salt marshes. Also an urban weed in clogged gutters, drains and in damp lawns, verges and parkland.

pōpōtai

1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.

ngarangara

1. (noun) small thing.

E mau atu nei tētahi rārangi pātai e pā ana ki te 'Muka' hei whakakī mai mā koutou, mā te hunga whai mai i ēnei ngarangara kōrero a Te Taura Whiri (HM 2/1994:11). / Attached here is a list of questions concerning the 'Muka' newsletter for you, the people who follow these small news items of the Māori Language Commission, to fill out.

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2. (noun) New Zealand ice plant, Disphyma australe - a native plant with green to wine red, succulent, three-angled leaves and white to deep pink flowers. Its sprawling nature forms a mat and is found on coastal cliffs, salt meadows and sometimes behind sandy beaches.

See also horokaka

Synonyms: ruerueke

oho

1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.

ohomauri

1. (verb) to jump into action, start suddenly, startle, astonish, astound, shock.

Ohomauri ana te tangata i tēnei whakaaturanga (TP 1/11/1901:5). / One was astounded by this revelation.

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Synonyms: oho mauri, mōketekete, whiti, ohorere, whētuki, whakaanuanu, hiko


2. (noun) surprise, shock.

Ka mea atu a Kāpene Kuku kia taraitia te pupuhi i te pū. Kātahi ka purua, ka whakapiria ki te pāpāringa, kātahi ka pūhia. Nō te pakūnga he ohomauri anake; tāia ana te pū rā ki runga ki te kōhatu, whati tonu atu, whiua atu hoki ki te wai (TWMNT 11/8/1874:203). / Captain Cook told him to try shooting the gun. The gun was then loaded and he held it to his check and fired it. When it exploded he got such a fright that he threw it down on the stones and it broke, and he threw it into the water.

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3. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.

pātātai

1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.

pepe

1. (noun) banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis assimilis - a secretive native bird with upperparts olive-brown and black with white spots, and underparts barred black-and-white. Lives in salt marshes, mangroves and swamps.

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