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pokopokorua

1. (verb) to be hollow, sunken.

Tae rawa atu kua patua tāna ika e ōna tuākana ki te rākau. Koia i pokopokorua ai, i maunga ai (TTT 1/4/1929:960). / When he finally arrived his fish had been beaten with sticks. That's why it has hollows and mountains.

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2. (modifier) hollow, sunken.

Tērā tētahi kōrero mō ētahi tamariki e takaro ana i tētahi wāhi e tata ana ki te ara o te tereina, ka kite aua tamariki i ētahi wāhi pokopokorua o te ara o te rerewē, ka houhou rātau ki reira takoto ai (TJ 6/9/1898:7). / There was a story about some children playing at a place near the railway track when those children found some sunken areas of the railway track, and they got into those and lay down.

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3. (noun) pit, hollow.


4. (noun) ant, Formicidae spp.

See also pōpokorua

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