kowhai

How To Use kowhai In A Sentence

• The council's kowhaiwhai pattern will be sandblasted around its lower section
• I love in recent years how it increasingly boldly speaks across cultures and traditions while still being firmly rooted in extending the kowhaiwhai pattern of mangopare.
• You see, I took photos of flowering kowhai trees sophora microphylla last week as evidence of spring in New Zealand, for yellow is one of the most striking colours of our spring - it sparkles against new green growth and dew drops, however cold the days might still be right up to the middle of the season. Archive 2008-11-01
• The mangopare kowhaiwhai design on the rafters represents a hammerhead shark, a species which is very hard to kill and has become the symbol of bravery.
• Her garment Toi Aotearoa, inspired by the patterns in carving, weaving and kowhaiwhai (Maori painted scroll ornamentation), is also a finalist in the South Pacific section at the World of Wearable Art awards.
• Because they eat the new growth they have destroyed large areas of native rata, totara, titoki, kowhai and other species.
• At the end of the book, a kowhai is planted, a reminder of the bush that once covered the hill.
• She wrote in a letter that the pleasure of living above Bridger Park, with its line of flowering golden kowhai next to the stream, was reward enough.
• Kowhais, kauris, kanukas, lacebarks, lemonwoods, and other species surround the house lawns while older tanekahas and pines define the top boundary with Kauri Grove.
• Kowhaiwhai lends itself to being able to interweave the social, political and economic forces we face today in Aotearoa.