2. (loan) (noun) bush, forest.
Ka tae ki te tapa o te puihi, ka haere atu te tāhae nei ki te kai tāwhara (TTT 1/12/1924:147). / When this fellow reached the edge of the bush he went in to eat some tāwhara berries.
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