tūtae
1. (noun) dung, excrement, shit, faeces, poo, droppings, stools.
Ka kite a Te Matata i te tūtae e tū ana, ka whatia e ia, ka mōhio a ia he tūtae hou, ka hoki whakamuri ia me te mōhio haere, kei te kite tonu atu te tāpae (MT 2011:73). / Te Matata saw some faeces piled up and he broke it and then knew it was fresh and he retreated realising that the advance war party was watching.
2. (noun) also used as the first part of the names of a number of small plants.
tūtae whatitiri
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.
See also matakupenga
Synonyms: kōkirikiriwhetū, kōpurawhetū, korokorowhetū, wheterau, popowhaitiri, tikowhatitiri, paruwhatitiri, tūtae whetū, matakupenga
tūtae ikamoana
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.
See also kōkihi
Synonyms: rengamutu, kōkihi, rengarenga
tūtae kererū
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.
See also akakiore
Synonyms: tautaua, kaihua, akakaikiore, akakiore, tawhiwhi, poapoa tautaua
tūtae whetū
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.
See also matakupenga
Synonyms: kōkirikiriwhetū, kōpurawhetū, korokorowhetū, wheterau, popowhaitiri, tūtae whatitiri, tikowhatitiri, paruwhatitiri, matakupenga
tūtae atua
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.
See also tūtae
tūtae kāhu
1. (noun) white oxalis, Oxalis magellanica - a small plant with long stems, clover-like leaves and white flowers. Favours damp places.
Synonyms: tūtae kākā
tūtae kākā
1. (noun) white oxalis, Oxalis magellanica - a small plant with long stems, clover-like leaves and white flowers. Favours damp places.
See also tūtae kāhu
Synonyms: tūtae kāhu
tūtae kiore
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.
2. (noun) you idiot, what a fool, what a moron, what a blockhead - a term of criticism with numerous equivalents in English.
tūtae tohoraha
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.
See also mīmiha
manawa kai tūtae
1. (modifier) daring, undaunted, adventurous, audacious, bold, fearless, game, intrepid, plucky.
I te mutunga o āna mahi manawa kai tūtae e tere ana i ngā moana o te ao, ka noho ia ki uta i te tau 1830, ki te teihana hopu pakake a Jacky Guard i Te Awaiti (TTR 1994:23). / After his adventurous occupation sailing the oceans of the world, in 1830 he lived ashore at Jacky Guard's Te Awaiti shore whaling station.
2. (noun) daring person, adventurer, fearless person, daredevil, risk-taker.
Ehara, kua kai te patu a te manawa kai tūtae i te upoko o te hoariri. / Behold, the daredevil's weapon has struck the enemy's head.
Synonyms: waewae kai kapua