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whāruarua

1. (stative) be concave, depressed.


2. (noun) valley, gap, hollow, depression.

E hia tau kē nei rātou e kaha ana te pukumahi ki te keri wāra hei whakamaroke i ngā whenua reporepo, ururua hoki, me te whakakīkī haere anō i ngā whāruarua i mahue mai (TTR 1996:46). / They worked energetically for many years draining the swampy and scrub-covered land and filling the hollows.

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3. (noun) minimum (of a graph).

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