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kohoho

1. (noun) poroporo, Solanum aviculare - native shrub to 3m tall with dark, soft, lance-shaped or lobed, alternating leaves. Flowers are white to blue-purple and the fruit yellow to orange. Most common along the edges of forest and in scrub. The fruit is poisonous until fully ripe.

See also poroporo

Synonyms: tūpurupuru, pōporo, peoi


2. (noun) fruit of the poroporo and other species.

Ka kite rāua i te tūī e kai ana; te kohoho i te kohe (JPS 1941:125). / They saw the tūī feeding on the fruit of the kohe tree.

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