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inanga|ˈinaŋa|
Also inaka (the South Island form).
[Maori.]
1. The New Zealand name for a small fish, Galaxias attenuatus, the young form of which is called whitebait.
1845E. J. Wakefield Adventure N.Z. II. 100 This fish is called hinanga, and resembles Blackwall whitebait in size and flavour. 1896Australasian 28 Aug. 407/3 About the same size as this fish is the ‘inaka’ much used for bait. a1939‘R. Hyde’ Houses by Sea (1952) 64 Brown women drying out inanga. 1944Mod. Jun. Dict. (Whitcombe & Tombs) 209 Inanga, Inaka, the Maori name of the small fish called ‘whitebait’ in New Zealand; inanga in the north, inaka in the south. 1959Tindale & Lindsay Rangatira x. 93 Every year shoals of the tiny, delicious inanga fish came up the creeks from the sea. 1962Post-Primary School Bull. (N.Z.) XV. i. 26 Whitebait belongs to the species Galaxias attenuatus... The adult fish, called Inanga, reach a length of about four inches.
2. An evergreen shrub or small tree, Dracophyllum longifolium, belonging to the family Epacridaceæ and native to New Zealand.
1889T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 215 Mr. Charles Traill informs me that it [sc. Dracophyllum longifolium] is termed ‘inaka’ by the Maoris on Stewart Island. 1910L. Cockayne N.Z. Plants 76 In similar situations [sc. along the coastline] the inuka (Dracophyllum longifolium) and the smaller New Zealand flax (Phormium Cookianum) are common. 1929W. Martin N.Z. Nature Bk. viii. 126 The Inanga ranges in size from a small shrub..to a tree 15 to 30 ft. high. 1961H. H. Allan Flora N.Z. I. 532 D. longifolium... Inanga... The Forsterian specimens I have seen are scrappy. 1968N.Z. Listener 15 Mar. 6/5 Lying in its sheltered cove..complete with its own rata tree, inaka bushes, and great cushy heaps of golden-green moss. |