2. (noun) succulence, tenderness, softness, lushness.
Ka rawe te ngaore o te mīti ka āta tunua mō te hia hāore - kāore te paroparo e mamae i te roa e katikatia ana, e ngaungaua ana (HJ 2017:113). / The succulence of meat slowly cooked for several hours is excellent - the skull will not become sore from biting and chewing.
Synonyms: matomato
3. (noun) smelt, common smelt, Retropinna retropinna, Stokell's smelt, Stokellia anisodon - slender small silvery endemic freshwater fish that move about in shoals and growing to about 165 mm long. Common smelt found throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand, but Stokell's smelt only found in lower reaches of rivers in the Marlborough-Canterbury coast. Spawn in the reaches of rivers in summer and autum then dying. Lavae washed to sea, some returning with whitebait, others returning only as adults.
