toretore

toretore

Māori

Etymology

Reduplication of tore “strip; to strip, to shred”.

Verb

toretore

  1. to cut or split into strips, to shred

Noun

toretore

  1. sea anemone

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917), “toretore”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 513
  • John C. Moorfield (2011), “toretore”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎[1], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN
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