papatua
1. (modifier) uncultivated, unfarmed, fallow, untilled.
I tokona hoki e Timi Kara te Ture Hoko, Whakawhiwhi Whenua Māori 1893, e whakaāhei ana i te kāwanatanga ki te kī ko ēwhea whenua papatua Māori me hoko tonu atu, me rīhi tonu atu rānei (TTR 1994:11). / Carroll also supported the Native Land Purchase and Acquisition Act 1893, which enabled the government to declare which uncultivated Māori land should be sold or leased.
2. (noun) snakeskin chiton, Sypharochiton pelliserpentis - the commonest chiton in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Shell has a pattern and texture like a banded snakeskin.
