kakahin.
/ˈkɑːkəhi/ Brit. /ˈkɑːkəhi/, U.S. /ˈkɑkəˌhi/, New Zealand English /ˈkʌːkʌhi/, /ˈkʌːkəhi/ New Zealand.
The freshwater mussel, Hyridella menziesi.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Unionidae > genus Anodont > hyridecca menziesi
kakahi1921
1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira viii. 55 The shallows of the lake were paved with mussel-beds—kakahi.
1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) ii. viii. 235 The rake was lowered from a canoe on to the shoals with beds of the fresh-water clam termed kakahi.
1962 Post-Primary School Bull. 15 i. 19 Kakahi are to be found embedded in the muddy and sandy bottoms of rivers and lakes.
1966 Encycl. N.Z. II. 616/1 These bivalve shellfish are..the kakahi of the Maoris.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1921- set on write
- set one in another's neck
- set one sore
- set one straight
- set one's back up
- set one's best foot forward
- set one's best leg forward
- set one's cap at
- set one's face
- set one's face against
- set one's face as a flint
- set one's face for
- set one's face for from
- set one's face for to
- set one's face for towards
- set one's face in a brake
- set one's face like a flint
- set one's foot
- set one's foot by
- set one's foot down
- set one's foot forward
- set one's foot on the neck of
- set one's foot to
- set one's foot upon
- set one's hand against