2. (noun) small white rātā, clinging rātā, Metrosideros perforata, large-flowered rātā vine, Metrosideros albiflora - vines with white, fluffy flowers. A number of climbing plants have aka- as a prefix to their names.
See also akatea
Synonyms: akatoki, akatea, whakapiopio, torotoro, akatorotoro, koro
3. (noun) Vine - a short form video-sharing service that allows users to record and edit six-second long video clips, which can be then published through Vine's social network and shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter. Usually Te Aka.
Wāina
1. (loan) (personal name) Vine.
He mea perehi e Wāina me Wāina, ā he mea pānui e Wāta Wiremu Hīpango, i raro i te mana o te Komiti Nui o Whanganui (TJ 6/10/1898:15) / Printed by Vine and Vine and published by Walter William Hīpango under the authority of the General Māori Committee of Whanganui.
rātā
1. (noun) rātā, Metrosideros robusta (Northern), Metrosideros umbellata (Southern) - large forest tree with crimson flowers and hard red timber. The Northern rātā is a strangling hemiepiphyte that sends roots from the canopy that thicken and fuse into an independent trunk, which eventually becomes a tall free-standing tree.
Ka tino purotu te puāwai o te rākau, arā, o te kōwhai, o te hutukawa, o te rātā, o te heketara, o te rangiora (TTT 1/4/1929:972). / The flowers of the trees were quite beautiful, that is of the kōwhai, the pōhutukawa, the rātā, the tree daisy and the rangiora.
2. (noun) scarlet rātā vine, Metrosideros fulgens - a native vine with orange-red flowers, mainly during winter.
Synonyms: whakatangitangi, akatawhiwhi, amaru, kāhikahika
akatawhiwhi
1. (noun) scarlet rātā vine, Metrosideros fulgens - a native vine with yellow to bright red flowers, mainly during winter.
See also rātā
Synonyms: whakatangitangi, amaru, kāhikahika, rātā
akatea
1. (noun) white rātā vine, Metrosideros albiflora, small white rātā, clinging rātā, Metrosideros perforata - vines with white, fluffy flowers. Metrosideros albiflora is found in northern North Island. Metrosideros perforata is a woody long-climbing vine. Leaves more or less circular, dark green above, pale green below, both surfaces covered in fineglandular spots (especially evident on leaf undersides). Flowers white (rarely pink) in dense, terminal, fluffy, clusters.
Synonyms: akatoki, aka, whakapiopio, torotoro, akatorotoro, koro
whakatangitangi
1. (verb) (-hia) to play an instrument.
He nui ngā mahi i mahia e te Pākehā i konā, arā ngā mahi whakatangitangi pēne, whakatangitangi piana, whakatangitangi whira (TJ 19/7/1900:15). / There were a lot of amusements enjoyed by the Pākehā there, such as playing band music, playing the piano and the fiddle.
2. (verb) (-hia) to make sounds repeatedly.
Ko te manu e whakatangitangi ana ki tana pī kia whakarērea te kōhanga kia rere rāua ki te takiwā (TTT 1/7/1924:70). / The bird chirping to its chick to abandon the nest and together fly off into space.
3. (modifier) playing an instrument, instrumental.
E rua ngā rōpū whakatangitangi ko tā ngā tamariki o Mōteo, me tā Rākaipākā (TTT 1/9/1927:651). / There were two instrumental groups, that of the children of Mōteo and that of Rākaipākā.
4. (noun) playing (of an instrument), performance.
I muri iho i te whakatangitangi a te pēne, ka tū atu a Te Tātana rāua ko Rev. Āta Wiremu ki te mihi ki te māhita o te kura, ki ngā tamariki hoki mō tā rātou whakatangitangi (TP 3/1912:5). / After the band's performance, Mr Thornton and Rev. Arthur Williams stood up to thank the school master and the children for their performance.
Synonyms: whakaaturanga, whakakite, haka, purei, whakatangi
5. (noun) scarlet rātā vine, Metrosideros fulgens - a native vine with orange-red flowers, mainly during winter.
See also rātā
Synonyms: akatawhiwhi, amaru, kāhikahika, rātā
kāhikahika
1. (noun) scarlet rātā vine, Metrosideros fulgens - a native vine with yellow to bright red flowers, mainly during winter.
See also rātā
Synonyms: whakatangitangi, akatawhiwhi, amaru, rātā
amaru
1. (noun) scarlet rātā vine, Metrosideros fulgens - a native vine with orange-red flowers, mainly during winter.
See also rātā
Synonyms: whakatangitangi, akatawhiwhi, kāhikahika, rātā
akatoki
1. (noun) white rātā vine, Metrosideros albiflora, small white rātā, clinging rātā, Metrosideros perforata - vines with white, fluffy flowers. Metrosideros albiflora is found in northern North Island. Used for lashing toki, etc.
See also akatea
Synonyms: akatea, aka, whakapiopio, torotoro, akatorotoro, koro
kāea
1. (noun) long trumpet made of wood and bound with vine.
See also pūkāea
pōhue
1. (noun) convolvulus, bindweed, New Zealand bindweed, Calystegia sepium - a herbaceous perennial that twines around other plants to a height of up to 2-4 m. Leaves are arranged spirally, simple, pointed at the tip and arrowhead shaped, 5-10 cm long and 3-7 cm broad. Flowers are produced from late spring to the end of summer. The open flowers are trumpet-shaped, 3-7 cm diameter, white, or pale pink with white stripes. A name given to several climbing plants.
Ko te rite ia kei te whare pakaru e awhitia nei e te pōhue, matomato tonu, ngotongoto tonu, ki te titiro atu, ko roto ia he pirau, he popopo (TTT 1/3/1923:195). / It is but a ruined building wreathed with ivy, all lush and fresh to look at, but rotten inside.
2. (noun) New Zealand passionfruit, Passiflora tetrandra - native tendril climber with alternating, pointed, shiny leaves, white flowers smaller than the garden passionfruit and orange-coloured, pear-shaped fruit.
E kī ana, i mua i pai te kai a te Māori, he kūmera, he aruhe, he pōhue, he manu, he kaingārā, he tuna, he mātaitai; e mea ana anō i kaha rawa te tangata i tērā wā. Ināianei, kua mahue te aruhe, me te pōhue kua kore te kaingārā, kua iti haere te manu, kua iti haere hoki te ngaki o te kūmera, kua tahuri te tangata ki te kānga piro (TH 1/7/1859:2). / It is said that in former times the diet of the Māori consisted of kūmara, fern root, New Zealand passionfruit, birds, yellow moray eels, eels and seafood; and it was also said that people were stronger at that time. Now, the fern root has been abandoned along with the New Zealand passionfruit and the yellow moray eels is gone, birds have decreased and the cultivation of kūmara has also dwindled and people have turned to fermented corn.
See also kōhia
Synonyms: kūpapa, kōhia, kohe, kāhia, kaimanu, akakaikū, akatororaro, akakūkū, akakaikūkū, akakaimanu
3. (noun) wire vine, Muehlenbeckia complexa - a native twining stem climber found behind sand dunes and on rocky ground. It has small, round to heart-shaped alternating leaves. The flowers are inconspicuous and the fruit is a black, three-angled seed in a fleshy, ice-coloured cup.
akaaka
1. (noun) vine of any climbing plant, long and thin roots, fibrous roots.
Hei te rima kua toro te akaaka o ngā mea o te whenua; hei te ono kua kaha te tipu o ngā mea katoa (M 2004:70). / On the fifth month the roots of the plants on the land stretch forth; on the sixth all growth is vigorous.
2. (noun) nerve.
He whakapopo i ngā niho, he whakahauā i te korokoro me te atewharowharo, me ngā whanewhane katoa o te kōpū; he whakakeretā i ngā roro me ngā akaaka katoa o te tinana (TKM.MM 20/8/1862:21). / It rots the teeth, damages the throat and lungs, and all the organs of the abdomen, and destroys the brain and all the nerves of the body.
3. (noun) state of turmoil, upheaval.
I te wā o tōna whanaketanga tae atu ki ngā tau tōmua o tana pakeketanga e pokea ana tōna iwi e te akaaka (TTR 1996:237). / At the time when he was growing up until the years before he became an adult his people were living in turmoil.
2. (noun) spider web.
He māwhai pūngāwerewere i hangā hei kākahu (TW 14/4/1877:131). / Spider webs made into a garment.
3. (noun) fishing net.
4. (noun) māwhai, dodder, Cassytha paniculata - leafless plant parasitic on herbs and shrubs forming tangled masses with stems yellowish green up to 3m long. Found in northern North Island in lowland scrub.
5. (noun) ambush vine, Sicyos mawhai - an herbaceous climber with stems up to 10 m long and 3-5 tendrils. Has vanished from much of its past range over the last 50 or so years. Currently it remains common only on the less accessible northern offshore islands (e.g. Three Kings, Poor Knights and Mokohīnau Islands) and on the Kermadec Islands. In suitable conditions white flowers are produced throughout the year.
aka tokai
1. (noun) vine lashing (for an adze, etc.).
Ka ngōki te tamaiti, ka tū ki runga, ka hangaia e te matua, e ngā tīpuna rānei, he pakokori hei tūnga mō te tamaiti i roto, hei ngā kēkē o te tamaiti te tiketike. He mea porohita te mahinga, he mea pou ki te rākau. Ko runga he mea porohita ki te aka tokai ka whakapuru ai a roto ki te hungahunga whitau, ka hoatu te tamaiti ki roto tū ai, kori ai (TPH 15/1/1900:1). / When the child was able to walk and stand up, the father or grandparents made a play-pen for the child to stand in, and its height was up to the armpits of the child. It was made to be circular and held up with wooden sticks. The top was wound with creeper lashing and the inside was padded with soft flax fibre. The child was placed inside to stand up and to play.
