2. (noun) mussel's beard, Amphisbetia minima - a yellowish-brown, fine hair-like mass which grows amongst tidal seaweeds, in rock pools and on the shells of mussels.
3. (noun) influence, effect, impact.
Ka riro mā ngā whakawai, mā ngā kawekawe o te ao kōrero Pākehā tōna reo Māori e tāmoe, e tārona ka puta ia i te maru o taua kura (HM 3/1993:6). / The distractions and the influences of the English speaking world will smother and strangle their Māori language when they emerge from the shelter of that school.
