miro
1. (noun) miro, brown pine, Prumnopitys ferruginea - a coniferous tree of lowland forest, with curved leaves arranged in two rows. Pinkish-purple berries are eaten by kererū.
He nui anō ngā rākau nunui i taua wā, he tōtara, he rimu, he kahika, he mataī, he miro, he kauri me ngā rākau pakupaku, he patatē, he hinahina he kaikōmako te paunga o te ngahere i te ahi (HTK 20/1/1894:5). / There were many giant trees at that time, tōtara, rimu, kahikatea, mataī, miro and kauri, with the small trees, patatē, whiteywood and kaikōmako, which were all destroyed in the fire.
Synonyms: toromiro
kahika
1. (noun) white pine, Dacrycarpus dacrydioides - a tall coniferous tree of mainly swampy ground, the leaves are scale-like and soft to touch.
He nui anō ngā rākau nunui i taua wā, he tōtara, he rimu, he kahika, he mataī, he miro, he kauri me ngā rākau pakupaku, he patatē, he hinahina he kaikōmako te paunga o te ngahere i te ahi (HTK 20/1/1894:5). / There were many giant trees at that time, tōtara, rimu, kahikatea, mataī, miro and kauri, with the small trees, patatē, whiteywood and kaikōmako, which were all destroyed in the fire.
See also kahikatea
2. (noun) ancestor.
Ka mene ngā mōhio o ia waka, o ia waka, ka whiriwhiri ai i tētahi o koutou hei karaka tuhituhi, ā ka oti tērā, hei reira ka kauhau ai koutou i ngā kōrero mai rā anō i a Pō tuatahi, ā tae noa ki te tuatangata, ā ki ngā atua, ā ki ngā mea katoa i mōhiotia e ngā kahika, e ngā tūpuna (TW 10/8/1878:395). / The knowledgeable people of each canoe area should gather and select one of you to act as scribe, and when that's done that you talk over all the knowledge of the past, even from the time of the first Pō right until there was man and the atua, and everything that was known by the ancestors.
3. (noun) chief, leader.
I te tau 1945, ka whakataetae a Kāponga Erueti hei takawaenga mō te Rōpū Reipa ki a Matiu Rātana mō te rohe pōti Māori o Te Tai Hauāuru, engari he kahika tū kotahi a Kāponga (TTR 1998:55). / In 1945 Kāponga Erueti stood against Matiu Rātana for Western Māori as an independent Labour candidate, but that was the only time Kāponga stood as a leader.
Synonyms: manu taupua, kaitaki, kaitātaki, kaiārahi, kākākura, pouwhenua, kaiwhakataki, wheao, tumuaki, tumu whakarae, kaiarataki, kaikākāriki, ngārahu, ngārahu, tētēkura, uru, kaihautū, kaitakitaki, kaingārahu, manukura, kaiwhakanekeneke, tātāriki, tātāriki, amokapua, amokapua, amokura, amokura, ariki, ariki, ihorei, tātarariki, poutoko, poutoko, whakataka, whakataka, amorangi, amorangi, hautū, hautū
kahikatea
1. (noun) kahikatea, white pine, Dacrycarpus dacrydioides - a tall coniferous tree of mainly swampy ground, the leaves are scale-like and soft to touch.
Ka titiro a Wairangi, ko ngā poupou o te whare he kōhurihuri kahikatea (JPS 1910:198). / Wairangi looked and noticed that the side posts of the house were of sapling white pine.
See also kahika
2. (noun) wild cabbage, Brassica oleracea - an introduced plant.
2. (verb) to be scattered, separated.
Ka whiua e ia ngā huruhuru o te manu ki raro, ki te take o te rākau, koi hautea te huruhuru, koi katea haere i te ngāherehere, koi putu haere (W 1971:42). / He threw down the feathers of the bird to the base of the tree, lest they be scattered and spread around the forest in heaps.
Synonyms: tīrangaranga, tīrangorango, kūwawa, maheu, korara, mirara, pirara, mahora, marara, kaupararī, tīrara, tīrararara, papata, wawā, wāwā, whakawawā, makatea, mātiritiri, kaupāpari, kātohatoha, pahara, paihore, whakapirara, pīwawa
2. (noun) flower.
Ka makā atu e Taininihi tōna kura, ka ākiritia ki te waitai i tana kitenga tuatahi i ngā puaka ngangana o te rātā (TMT 2/9/1861:11). / Taininihi threw away his treasured possession, he threw it into the sea when he first saw the red flowers of the rātā tree.
3. (noun) dry twig.
Ka kopenua te pepa, hei tūāpapa mō te ahi. Kātahi ka whakatakotoria ngā puaka me ngā wahie nui ake ki runga ake (HJ 2012:198). / The paper is scrunched up as a foundation for the fire. Then the dry twigs and larger firewood are laid on top.
rimu
1. (noun) seaweed - a general term.
Ka tahuri rātau ki te koko rimu hei takotoranga mō ngā pāua me ngā ika maroke kia mākūkū ai, koi kino i te rehu waitai (JPS 1913:111). / They proceeded to pull up seaweed as receptacles for the pāua and the dried fish so that they would be moist, and so that they should not be spoiled by the sea spray.
See also parengo, karengo, rimurapa, rimurimu
Synonyms: rimurimu
2. (noun) moss - a general term.
Synonyms: whareatua, pūkahukahu, kohukohu, pūkohu, pūkohukohu, kōpuru
3. rimu, red pine, Dacrydium cupressinum - a tall coniferous tree with dark brown flaking bark, scale-like prickly leaves and gracefully weeping branches.
He nui anō ngā rākau nunui i taua wā, he tōtara, he rimu, he kahika, he mataī, he miro, he kauri me ngā rākau pakupaku, he patatē, he hinahina he kaikōmako te paunga o te ngahere i te ahi (HTK 20/1/1894:5). / There were many giant trees at that time, tōtara, rimu, kahikatea, mataī, miro and kauri, with the small trees, patatē, whiteywood and kaikōmako, which were all destroyed in the fire.
Synonyms: puaka
2. (noun) shrubby haloragis, Haloragis erecta - a native plant with opposite, coarsely toothed leaves on longish leaves borne on square, reddish stems. Flowers are inconspicuous. Can grow quite large and appear almost shrub-like.
manoao
1. (noun) silver pine, Manoao colensoi - a tree that grows to 15 m. Trunk is straight and clear of branches. Found from sea level to 950 m in northern North Island and on the West Coast of the South Island. In the juvenile tree the leaves are long, narrow, pointed, rather limp and spreading, but they become smaller in the semi-adult stage. The leaves of the adult tree are thick, keeled and scale-like.
Ka rite hoki ia ki te manoao i te koraha, e kore hoki e kite i te putanga mai o te pai; engari ko ngā wāhi waikore o te koraha hei kāinga mōna, he whenua tote, e kore nei e nohoia (PT Heremaia 17:6). / For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.
2. (noun) monoao, Halocarpus kirkii - a rare tall native tree up to 25 m tall with grey-brown bark that separates off in thickish, irregular flakes. The leaves of adult trees are thick, scale-like and overlap in four rows against the branchlets, while the juvenile leaves are 1.5-4 cm long (see illustration) and sometimes persist until the tree reaches about 10 m in height. Found only from Kaitaia to the Coromandel Peninsula and Port Waikato and on Great Barrier Island.
mataī
1. (noun) mataī, black pine, Prumnopitys taxifolia - a coniferous, long-lived native tree of lowland forest with small, narrow leaves arranged in two rows, hammer-marked trunk and pale timber. Ripe seed is a deep blue-black with a pale purplish bloom.
He nui anō ngā rākau nunui i taua wā, he tōtara, he rimu, he kahika, he mataī, he miro, he kauri me ngā rākau pakupaku, he patatē, he hinahina he kaikōmako te paunga o te ngahere i te ahi (HTK 20/1/1894:5). / There were many giant trees at that time, tōtara, rimu, kahikatea, mataī, miro and kauri, with the small trees, patatē, whiteywood and kaikōmako, which were all destroyed in the fire.
2. (noun) tree daisy, Olearia albida - a shrub or small tree found in North Island coastal forest or scrub. Has narrow, oblong, pale green, leathery leaves with wavy margins and felt-like undersides. Bears white daisies in summer and autumn.
3. (noun) Olearia furfuracea - a well-branched shrub found in scrub and forest margins of the North Island. The oval leaves are dark green and leathery with woolly, down-like hairs underneath. Clusters of starry-petalled white daisies appear in summer.
See also akepiro
Synonyms: wharangi piro, kūmara kai torouka
