(NZ) A member of a Maori people (or iwi) of the Northland region of New Zealand.
(NZ) A member of a Maori people (or iwi) of the Northland region of New Zealand.
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(NZ) A subtribe of an iwi or Maori tribe; the basic political unit within Māori society; a subtribe or extended family.
(New Zealand) A Māori social gathering or assembly.
(NZ) An extended group of Maori kin groups or families, sharing common ancestry; a tribe. (An iwi is smaller than a waka and larger than a hapu.).
Pihoihoi is a Maori name used in New Zealand for the Australasian pipit — a small, brown, ground-dwelling songbird found across New Zealand's open grasslands and coasts. The name is onomatopoeic in Maori tradition, echoing the bird's piping call. As a dictionary entry it is primarily of ornithological and linguistic interest — a reminder that New Zealand English freely incorporates Maori bird names into everyday nature vocabulary. The entry appears incomplete in the source data.