Learning to Love (New Zealand Sailing #1)

Glossary

GLOSSARY

Tui - The tui is a boisterous medium-sized bird native to New Zealand. It is blue, green, and bronze colored with a distinctive white throat tuft.

Kauri - Kauri are among the world's mightiest trees, growing to over 50 m tall, with trunk girths up to 16 m, and living for over 2,000 years.

Pounamu - Traditionally, pounamu, or greenstone (jade), is regarded as a talisman. Māori designs and symbols carved in pounamu carry spiritual significance.

Nikau - The Nikau is the only palm tree native to mainland New Zealand.

Pohutukawa - Also called the New Zealand Christmas tree, it’s a coastal evergreen tree in the myrtle family, that produces a brilliant display of red flowers.

Jibe - Also gybe, in sailing it means to change course by swinging the sail across a following wind.

Tim-Tam - Tim Tam is a brand of chocolate biscuit made by the Australian biscuit company Arnott's. It consists of two malted biscuits separated by a light chocolate cream filling and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate.

Kawakawa - Kawakawa is a versatile herb and one of the most important in Māori medicine. It has been used traditionally to treat cuts, wounds, stomach and rheumatic pain, skin disorders, toothache.

Kiwi - a flightless bird native to New Zealand, also a nickname for New Zealanders.