GLOSSARY OF NEW ZEALAND TERMS
Biddy-bid—a burr.
Brumbies—wild horses.
Keas—meat-eating mountain parrot.
Koradi-stick—blossom stalk of flax.
Kowhai—timber tree.
Lawyer—trailing thorny vine. (“Wait-a-bit.”)
Makutu—a wizard’s curse.
Manuka—small scrubby tree. (Scrub.)
Matai—black pine.
Matakuri—a thorny bush.
Mic-a-mic—scrub.
Moko-moko—bell-bird.
Mopok—native owl.
Musterer’s hut—shepherd’s out-station.
Mutton-bird—species of petrel.
Nlgger-head swamp—loose tussock growing on stems in swamp.
Pakeha—white man.
Papa—soft blue slaty rock.
Raupo—bull-rush.
Rimu—Timber tree. (Red pine.)
Tawhina—resinous shrub.
Tiki—a charm carved by Maori in shape of a grotesque man.
Tohunga — Maori wizard.
Toi-toi—native pampas grass.
Totara — very large tree.
Tussock—rough bunch-grass, characteristic of New Zealand.
Tutu—poisonous plant.
Whanae—slender flowering tree.
Whare—hut.
Wild Irishman—thorny bush. (Matakuri.)
