1. (noun) tōtara, Podocarpus totara, Podocarpus cunninghamii - large forest trees with prickly, olive-green leaves not in two rows. Found throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. Trees are either male or female with the female producing bright red fruit. Popular timber for carving. The reddish-brown bark peels in long strips and is used for the outside covering of pōhā.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 14-16;)

1. (noun) pātōtara, dwarf mingimingi, Leucopogon fraseri - a very small shrub up to 15 cm high. The small leaves are very close-set with a sharp stiff point at the apex. The fruit are yellowish-orange when ripe.

1. (noun) young chief - often used as an expression of endearment.

1. (noun) yellowbelly flounder, Rhombosolea leporina - distinguished from other flounder by its distinctive yellow blind-side colouration, elongate body and deeply split anterior dorsal and pelvic fin rays. Endemic to coastal Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Chatham Islands from subtidal to depths of 25 m in bays, estuaries and brackish coastal lakes.

1. (noun) pātōtara, dwarf mingimingi, Leucopogon fraseri - a very small shrub up to 15 cm high. The small leaves are very close-set with a sharp stiff point at the apex. The fruit are yellowish-orange when ripe.

1. (noun) pātōtara, dwarf mingimingi, Leucopogon fraseri - a very small shrub up to 15 cm high. The small leaves are very close-set with a sharp stiff point at the apex. The fruit are yellowish-orange when ripe.

1. A lofty tōtara. A great chief or leader.

1. A tōtara that has no branches. A male who has no bore no children.

1. A tōtara that inspires envy in the eye of the beholder. A great chief or leader.

1. A forest of tōtara: a gathering of esteemed ones.

1. (location) Queen Charlotte Sound.

1. (noun) New Zealand cedar, Libocedrus plumosa - a tall native tree with a cone-shaped head of heavy, almost horizontally spreading branches. The trunk is without branches for some distance above the ground and has thin, parchment-like bark which falls in long strips. The leaves are rich green, compressed and flattened, giving a feathery effect.

1. (verb) to be divided, split - used of a tribe or group of people.

1. (location) One Tree Hill (Auckland) - this alternative name comes from the name of the tōtara tree that grew on Maungakiekie, after which the mountain gained its Pākehā name of One Tree Hill. The original tree was cut down for firewood and replaced by a pine tree.

1. (adjective) Applied to timber of tōtara that is in the state termed dozy by bushmen; inferior wood, not solid, full of small holes.

1. (noun) a variety of kūmara.

1. (noun) A variety of greenstone, opaque and dark green.

1. (noun) tōtara, Podocarpus totara, Podocarpus cunninghamii - large forest trees with prickly, olive-green leaves not in two rows. Found throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. Trees are either male or female with the female producing bright red fruit. Popular timber for carving. The reddish-brown bark peels in long strips and is used for the outside covering of pōhā. A South Island name.