taipua
1. (noun) rock cod, blue cod, Parapercis colias - blue to bluish-green fish with an elongated body and smoothly sloping head and snout. It is exclusively found in Aotearoa/New Zealand in shallow waters around the rocky coasts of up to the depth of 150 m, though it is far more common south of Cook Strait.
Hei ngā marama o Ākuhata me Hepetema ka haongia ko te tarakihi, te pōrae , te rāwaru te taipua rānei, te kehe tae atu ki te kumukumu (Te Ara 2012). / In August and September tarakihi, trumpeter fish, rock cod, marble fish and gurnard are caught in nets.
See also rāwaru
taipua
1. (verb) to lie in rounded masses (e.g. as cumulus clouds).
I tētahi pō ka titiro ia ki te pō tū i waho i Te Omanga e tāruru ana, ki Te Ika o te Rangi me Ngā Pātari, ki te tae pūkohu tātaiore e taipua ana i ngā maunga (JPS 1911:17). / One night he looked at the clouds beyond Te Omanga, resting close and compact, at the Milky Way and the Magellan Clouds, at the misty clouds settling in rounded masses on the mountains.
