Denoting or relating to people who have some Maori ancestry.
the discovery was made by a part-Maori boy from Auckland
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- He asked his part-Maori wife about Matariki who told him it was a star cluster that started the New Year.
- The injection of some part-Maori English cast members gives the show some global gravitas.
- He was the first man to father a part-Maori child in England.
- He is possibly part-Maori, apparently being 'of Ngati Kahungunu descent'.
- The Herald has a part-maori reporter who wrote the article.
- Her children, who were part-Maori, were with fewer Maori pupils at Wairakei and Breens Intermediate than if they had stayed in Aranui but they benefited from getting to know other nationalities too.
- That'll pay for about 1 year of racist treaty claims from the part-maori separatists and their corrupt tribunal!
- Because I was part-Maori, I had to play roles like the street kids and the glue sniffers.
- Her part-Maori look is in huge demand overseas.
- When you're a part-Maori person, you're confronted by the fact that you are Maori and you know very little about it.