Ao Toa
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by Cathie Dunsford
oyster-catcher bird
totara
large native tree.
tuatua
shellfish resembling pipi
tui
parson bird with white feathers at throat
urenika
Maori potatoes
utu
revenge
wahine
women
wahine toa
strong women
waiata
song
wairua
soul
waka
canoe
wakame
edible seaweed
weka
flightless bird that sounds like a kiwi at night
wenewene
gourd; also used of convulvulus
weta
large insect like a giant barbed cricket
whakapapa
ancestry
whanau
family
whare
hut or house
whare nui
large house or long house