kakaruwai
1. (noun) South Island robin, New Zealand robin, Petroica australis - a tame, inquisitive, small bird of the bush with dark slate-grey feathers and long thin legs. The South Island birds have a white breast.
(Te Pihinga Study Guide (Ed. 1): 2; Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 179; Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 96;)
2. (noun) weak, feeble, delicate health.
Nā te āhua mōioio o tana wahine i kore ai ia i haere ki te ako i Ākarana hei minita mō te Hāhi Mihinare (TTR 1994:161). / Because of his wife's delicate health he could not go to Auckland to study to be a minister for the Anglican Church.
3. (noun) South Island robin, New Zealand robin, Petroica australis - a tame, inquisitive, small bird of the bush with dark slate-grey feathers and long thin legs. The South Island birds have a white breast.
tarapō
1. (noun) kākāpō, ground parrot, Strigops habroptilus - rare, large, green endemic parrot that is nocturnal and flightless. Now found only on islands off Stewart Island.
See also kākāpō
Synonyms: tātarapō, tarepō, kākātarapō
2. (noun) female of North Island and South Island robin, Petroica longipes, Petroica australis - a tame, inquisitive, small bird of the bush with dark slate-grey feathers and long thin legs. Female has smaller pale area on belly.
kātoitoi
1. (noun) South Island robin, Petroica australis - a tame, inquisitive, small bird of the bush with dark slate-grey feathers and long thin legs and a white breast.
Ko te kātoitoi moata i te ata hāparapara, māna te noke tuatahi (TPH 30/6/1901:4). / The New Zealand robin that is early in the dawn, it will have the first worm. (A whakatauākī urging early attendance in order to gain the advantage. Similar to the English: The early bird catches the worm.)
See also kakaruwai
Synonyms: karuwai, karuai, kātuhituhi, mōioio, tarapō, taruwai, tātaruwai, toitoireka, wheko pō, totoi, tōtōara, piere, mokorā, kakaruwai, hātoitoi
