nakonako
1. (verb) (-tia) to adorn, ornament.
He wheua toroa ngā uhi, arā te mea māna e nakonako te kiri o te tangata (W 1971:217) / The chisels were albatross bone, that is the one for him to adorn the skin of a person.
Synonyms: tāraro, whakanikoniko, whakapaipai, whakaniko, whakarei, pōria, whakanakonako, whakapīwari
2. (noun) shining cuckoo, Chrysococcyx lucidus - a short-tailed, bronze-green bird with a dark green-and-white face and upperparts which migrates to the Solomon Islands and Bismarck Archipelago for the New Zealand winter.
See also pīpīwharauroa
Synonyms: whēnakonako, piripiriwharauroa, wharauroa, pīpīwharauroa
