toretore

Maori

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
  • “toretore” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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