pikopiko
1. (adjective) be meandering, wandering, rambling, winding.
Haere ai anō te kaipuke i te taha ki uta o taua toka, engari he pikopiko te ara (TWMNT 23/3/1875:67). / Ships travel on the inland side of the reef, but the route meanders about.
See also kōpikopiko
Synonyms: kōpikopiko, ikimoke, karore, kāwekaweka, parure, kaipāwe, autaki
2. (modifier) winding, crooked, meandering.
E kī ana a Riwingitone, "He mea āhuareka te titiro whakamuri ki te roa o tō mātou tira e whakawiri haere ana i te huanui pikopiko." (TWMNT 10/5/1874:110). / Livingstone says, "It was pleasant to look back at the length of our travelling party as it twisted along the winding path."
3. (noun) young curved fern shoots.
I reira anō hoki te poaka puihi, te tia, te pikopiko me te kōmata (TTR 2000:206). / There there were also wild pig, deer, fern fronds and the tender shoots of the cabbage tree.
4. (noun) common shield fern, Polystichum neozelandicum subsp. zerophyllum - tufted native ground fern with few fronds, dark, shiny and leathery, on black, wiry stalks with short, hair-like scales.
Synonyms: tutoke
