1. (noun) fruit-bearing poroporo (Solanum aviculare and Solanum laciniatum), poroporo fruit .
Ko tētehi ritenga patu anō mō taua manu, mō te tūī, he tumu, kei ngā wā e mōmona ai te tūī i te kainga i te hua o te kaoho (JPS 1895:139). / Another method of hunting that bird, the tūī is the tumu, used at the times when the tūī is fat from eating the berries of the poroporo.
See also poroporo
Synonyms: kahoho
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