1. (noun) dung, excrement, shit, faeces, poo, droppings, stools.

1. (noun) back of the neck.

1. (noun) junction of the spine with the skull.

1. (noun) grass grub beetle, Costelytra zealandica - a chafer beetle which eats the leaves of trees, shrubs and vegetables in the summer and lives in the soil as a grub in winter, eating the roots of grass and other plants.

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1. (noun) basket fungus, white basket fungus, common-basket stinkhorn, Ileodictyon cibarium - starts growing like a puffball, but later, when the ball bursts, a white basket-like shape breaks out. When mature this breaks loose and rolls off in the wind, scattering its spores on the way. Found in clearings in the bush or in open country in summer to autumn.

1. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.

1. (noun) New Zealand jasmine, native jasmine, Parsonsia heterophylla - native climbing vine which often twines around itself. Has longish leaves and white, sweet-scented, tubular flowers.

1. (noun) basket fungus, white basket fungus, common-basket stinkhorn, Ileodictyon cibarium - starts growing like a puffball, but later, when the ball bursts, a white basket-like shape breaks out. When mature this breaks loose and rolls off in the wind, scattering its spores on the way. Found in clearings in the bush or in open country in summer to autumn.

1. (noun) puffball, Lycoperdon perlatum - ball-shaped fungi which, though solid when young, are full of dust-like spores when mature. Found mostly in pastures and along the edge of native bush in summer and autumn.

1. (noun) white oxalis, Oxalis magellanica - a small plant with long stems, clover-like leaves and white flowers. Favours damp places.

1. (noun) native celery, Apium prostratum - a native plant with dark, glossy leaves, much-divided, and looks like garden celery or parsley. Has tiny, white flowers in clusters and grows on cliffs, banks, damp sand and upper salt marsh.

1. (noun) white oxalis, Oxalis magellanica - a small plant with long stems, clover-like leaves and white flowers. Favours damp places.

1. (noun) North Island eyebright, Euphrasia cuneata - a perennial herb or subshrub up to 60 cm tall; stems woody in lower parts. Flowers white. Found in open rocky places, streamsides and among scrub, from sea level to 1500 m, from East Cape to Marlborough Sounds, Lake Ellesmere and Canterbury.

1. (noun) blue grass, blue wheat grass, Anthosachne kingiana subsp. multiflora - an indigenous grass found from the Three Kings Islands south throughout North Island to the South Island from Nelson to Banks Peninsula. Primarily a coastal species of cliff faces and rocky ground.

1. (verb) to be an idiot, to be a fool.

1. (noun) ambergris - a strong-smelling waxlike secretion of the intestine of the sperm whale sometimes found floating in the sea or washed up on the shore. Used in the perfume industry.

1. (modifier) daring, undaunted, adventurous, audacious, bold, fearless, game, intrepid, plucky.

1. (location) Conway River (south-west of Kaikōura).

1. (noun) stuntperson.

1. (noun) phosphite.