uruuruwhenua
1. (verb) to perform ceremonies to preserve the title to the land or on entering new territory.
E ai ki ngā kōrero he uruuruwhenua, arā, he wāhi karakia whakamāhaki i te rangi mō ngā tira haere (TWK 36:29). / According to the information this was a ceremonial place for travelling parties on entering new territory, that is a place to perform ritual chants to calm the sky.
See also uruwhenua
2. (noun) passport.
Ka oti te uiuitanga e ia, ka tīkina atu te inarapa moko, ā, ka tāia taku uruuruwhenua. / When she had finished the interrogation, she took her rubber stamp and stamped my passport.
Synonyms: uruwhenua
3. (noun) rough tree fern, Dicksonia squarrosa - native, medium-sized tree fern with a slender, often branching, trunk covered with black, peg-like remains of fallen fronds. Few fronds that spread horizontally with a few persistent brown dead fronds.
