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.
