pūwerewere
1. (noun) spider.
Koia nei te tīmatanga o ngā mea katoa i te ao nei, ahakoa tarutaru, rākau, kōhatu, ngā ika, ngā manu, ngā ngārara, ngā pāpā, ngā pūwerewere, ngā mū, ngā pūrerehua (W 1971:213). / That is the beginning of all things in this world, whether it be vegetation, trees, rocks, fish, birds, reptiles, geckos, spiders, insects or moths.
2. (noun) foliate design in carving.
Ko te pūwerewere. He tāruarua te noho whakahāngai o ētahi hahae e toru, e whā rānei, ki roto i tētahi awaawa āhua whānui nei (RTA 2014:210). / The pūwerewere carving design. A repetition of three or four cuts lying at right angles in a quite wide groove.
3. (noun) hyperbola.
Ko te pūwerewere te āhua o te mata ina tapahia tētahi koeko, kāore e whakarara te tapahanga ki te rōnaki o te koeko. Koia anō te āhua o tētahi momo kauwhata motuhake (TRP 2010:218). / The hyperbola is the shape of the face produced when a cone is cut so as not to be parallel with the slope of the cone. It is also the shape of a special type of graph.
