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1. (loc.n.) The name of the Fijian group of islands .

1. Be lively, vigorous, energetic; liveliness. Kia vitiviti te tangi o te pate. Get a good lively rhythm on the drums; ‘E tangata vitiviti ‘aia i te au 'anga‘anga kātoatoa. He is most energetic and active at everything; Kua reka māua i tērā tamaiti no te vitiviti. We are pleased with that boy because he has been energetic.

1. (n.) An edible leaf .

1. Pota wītī .

2. Rūkau wītī .

1. (n.) A variety of coconut, newly introduced from Fiji .

1. (n.) a dent, a small hollow made by pressure or a blow of a harder body on a softer; the condition of being sunken. akapoko v.t. to make a dent or to in-dent, to cause to be sunken.

2. (v.t.) redup. of poko: the condition of being dented or indented, or of being sunken in appearance: p.adj. dented, marked with dents, indented.

3. (v.t.) to beat, to strike, to thump, as bushes in order to startle or rouse any-thing lurking therein; to beat the water with the open hands in order to drive fish into a net, or to make a resounding sound or report by slapping the open hands on the surface of the water in order to frighten away sharks.

4. (adj.) hollow, sunken: n. a hole, a ca vity, any depression in a body, a groove, a channel, such as the holes, cavities or depressions on a reef that retain water after the tide has receded: v.t. to he sunken in, as the cheeks of an emaci-ated person, .