Lexicographical Neighbors of Aweto
Literary usage of Aweto
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"aweto. Tliis insect, one of the strangest in the world, is found in New Zealand
... Below the earth it grows into the aweto, filling up every possible space ..."
2. Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1904)
"aweto.—The aweto has well been termed the strangest insect in the world ; for,
were the fact not well vouched for by scientists, it would be incredible that ..."
3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... Cordyceps gunnii, Berk, in Tasmania; Cordyceps taylori, Berk, in Australia.
See aweto. "The New Zealanders'name for this plant-caterpillar is ..."
4. A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M. Ship Mæander: With Portions of by Henry Keppel, James Brooke (1853)
"... aweto ... "The aweto is only found at the root of one particular tree—the
Nata—the female ..."
5. Te Ika a Maui, Or, New Zealand and Its Inhabitants: Illustrating the Origin by Richard Taylor (1870)
"The aweto is found at the root of the rata and other trees. The plant, in every
instance, exactly fills the body of the caterpillar; in the finest specimens ..."
6. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"aweto, or Ameto (myth.), the lowest region of Hades (Po) ; absolute extinction.
Cf. weko, to be extinguished. AWHA (яи-Лй), a gale, ..."
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