karengo

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori.

Noun

karengo (uncountable)

  1. (New Zealand) Pyropia columbina, an edible seaweed.
    • 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 106:
      “I also look after a stand of mushrooms hereabouts, and my patches of puha and my karengo beds are very carefully tended.”

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