2. (noun) gravel, shingle.
He pai mēnā he one-paraumu, he māmā hoki te mahi, ko te kirikiri ka ruia ki raro i ngā rau kia kore ai e pāngia e te paru me te mākū (Te Ara 2011). / Dark, friable soil is desirable as it's easier to work and the gravel is sprinkled carried under the leaves, lest they suffer from the mud and wet.
3. (noun) sand.
Ka tae mātau ki reira kua pāpuni kē te ngutuawa i te kirikiri (HP 1991:16). / When we reached the river mouth it had been blocked by the sand.
2. (noun) sand.
E haka mai ana te hīrangi i tātahi i te wera o te onepū (PK 2008:115). / The beach is shimmering from the heat of the sand.
2. (noun) sand hill, sand dune.
Tae rawa atu ki te tāhuahua o te one, e whakangaro atu ana ngā rāwhara o Te Arawa (JPS 1893:221). / When he eventually reached the sand-hill of the beach, the sails of Te Arawa were disappearing in the distance.
Synonyms: taipū
taipū
1. (verb) to be heaped up.
He nui anō ngā whare i whiua e te wai ki waenganui o ngā rori i ngā tāone ki reira taipū ai, ko ētahi ka toru ka whā rau iāri e kāhakina haeretia ana ka potapota noa (TWMNT 6/10/1874:256). / Many houses were thrown into the middle of the roads by the water where they were piled up, some were carried three or four hundred yards and were smashed into pieces.
2. (noun) heap, pile, stack.
Te hokinga mai o te wahine rā i Pōneke rokohanga mai ko te taipū tangata e takoto ana i roto i tōna whare, arā ko tāna tāne me ana tamariki (TJ 12/10/1899:11). / When that woman returned from Wellington she came upon the pile of people lying in her house, that is her husband and her children.
Synonyms: tōhīanga, purawhetū, kauika, whakapū, whakaputu, whakarae, kōputu, pūhanga, pūkainga, putunga, whakarauika, whakapipi, whārona, pūkai, whakaputunga, haupū, pūkei
3. (noun) sand hill, sand dune.
Piki ake ki te tihi o te taipū kia pai ai te titiro ki te moana (PK 2008:819). / Climb to the top of the sand dune so that you have a good view of the sea.
Tipu ai te horokaka i ngā taipū me ngā tāmore toka puta noa i te motu. / The New Zealand ice-plant grows on dunes and rocky outcrops throughout the country.
Synonyms: tāhuahua
toroheke
1. (noun) native sand daphne, Pimelea arenaria - a shrub growing up to 1 m. Berries are red or white. Found on coastal sands.
Synonyms: autetauranga, autetaranga
tātaraheke
1. (noun) sand coprosma, Coprosma acerosa - a sprawling, bushy native plant with very narrow, sharp-pointed, yellowish or brownish leaves and pale-blue fruit borne on female plants only. Found on the landward side of coastal sand dunes in coastal Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Synonyms: tarakupenga
2. (noun) bush lawyer, Rubus cissoides, Rubus australis - native plants with hand-shaped, toothed leaves and white, heavily scented flowers. Fruit is yellowish-red, shaped like a small blackberry. The branchlets and backs of the leaf stalks are covered in hooked thorns. Found throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand.
See also tātarāmoa
Synonyms: taramoa, taraheke, tātarāmoa, akatātarāmoa
perehia
1. (noun) New Zealand wind grass, Lachnagrostis filiformis - common throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in coastal to subalpine open situations and often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground. Common around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins. Slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall.
2. (noun) sand wind grass, Lachnagrostis billardierei subsp. billardierei - a native mainly coastal grass on sand dunes, cobble and boulder beaches, on cliff faces, in free draining sites alongestuarine river banks, and fringing coastal ponds and lagoons. Sometimes on limestone or calcareous sandstone bluffs well inland. Stiffly tufted, glaucous to bluish-green perennial grass, 100-600 mm tall. Flowers August - February and fruits December - June.
autetaranga
1. (noun) native sand daphne, Pimelea arenaria - a shrub growing up to 1 m. Berries are red or white. Found on coastal sands.
See also autetauranga
Synonyms: toroheke, autetauranga
2. (noun) pīngao, golden sand sedge, Desmoschoenus spiralis - a native plant with golden-orange, polished, arching, narrow leaves which grows on sand dunes. Its dried leaves are used for weaving and 'tukutuku' panels for their bright yellow-orange colour.
Ka haere ki te rapu i ngā pīngao, ā, tae atu hoki ki ngā kiekie (TWK 43:27). / We went to look for pīngao and also kiekie.
2. (noun) silvery sand grass, Spinifex sericeus - a native plant of the sand dunes with silvery, grassy leaves covered in silky hairs. Seeds are on large spiky balls which are released from the female plants in late summer.
See also kōwhangatara
Synonyms: kōhangatara, turikākoa, kōwhangatara
3. (noun) ridge dividing the rows of pākati carving pattern.
tarakupenga
1. (noun) sand coprosma, Coprosma acerosa - sprawling shrub with an intertwined mass of branches and branchlets forming a cushion-like mound up to 2 m across. Branchlets golden brown and small leaves are olive green. Found on coastal sand dunes throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Synonyms: tātaraheke
2. (noun) clubmosses, Lycopodium spp - scrambling or epiphytic plants of various species. Main stems are usually long-creeping, branched and underground. Aerial stems fork repeatedly and are narrow. Small leaves spirally arranged around stem or flattened into one plane.
See also mātukutuku
kōhangatara
1. (noun) silvery sand grass, Spinifex sericeus - a native plant of the sand dunes with silvery, grassy leaves covered in silky hairs. Seeds are on large spiky balls which are released from the female plants in late summer.
See also kōwhangatara
Synonyms: turikākoa, raumoa, kōwhangatara
2. (noun) large sand scarab, Pericoptus truncatus - a large beetle that lives in the sand above the high-water mark.
autetauranga
1. (noun) native sand daphne, Pimelea arenaria - a shrub growing up to 1 m. Berries are red or white. Found on coastal sands.
See also toroheke, autetaranga
Synonyms: toroheke, autetaranga
turikākoa
1. (noun) silvery sand grass, Spinifex sericeus - a native plant of the sand dunes with silvery, grassy leaves covered in silky hairs. Seeds are on large spiky balls which are released from the female plants in late summer.
See also kōwhangatara
Synonyms: kōhangatara, raumoa, kōwhangatara
kōwhangatara
1. (noun) silvery sand grass, Spinifex sericeus - a native plant of the sand dunes with silvery, grassy leaves covered in silky hairs. Seeds are on large spiky balls which are released from the female plants in late summer.
Synonyms: kōhangatara, turikākoa, raumoa
heri kirikiri
1. (noun) sand tray.
I tana hokinga atu ki tōna takuahi, ka hangaia e ia tētahi heri kirikiri hei whakatauira ake mā ngā āpiha o te hokowhitu i te āhua o te whawhai e takatū nei rātou ki te kōkiri (TTR 2000:14). / When he returned to headquarters he set up a sand tray to illustrate to the battalion officers the nature of the battle that they were preparing to conduct.
Synonyms: pae onepū
