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Kiekie Griswoldi
Kiekie is a Polynesian word, in some languages written as ieie. It can refer to: *Kiekie (plant), ''Freycinetia banksii'', in New Zealand *Kiekie (clothing), an ornamental girdle around the hips, especially worn by women in Tonga *Kiekie (spider) ''Kiekie'' is a genus of wandering spiders first described by D. Polotow and Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2018. The type species, ''Kiekie sinuatipes'', was originally described under the name "''Ctenus sinuatipes"''. Species it contains elev ..., a genus of wandering spiders {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polynesian Languages
The Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing 7 percent of the 522 Oceanic languages, and 3 percent of the Austronesian family. While half of them are spoken in geographical Polynesia (the Polynesian triangle), the other half – known as Polynesian outliers – are spoken in other parts of the Pacific: from Micronesia to atolls scattered in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands or Vanuatu. The most prominent Polynesian languages, in number of speakers, are Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan, Māori and Hawaiian. The ancestors of modern Polynesians were Lapita navigators, who settled in the Tonga and Samoa areas about 3,000 years ago. Linguists and archaeologists estimate that this first population went through common development during about 1000 years, giving rise to Proto-Polynesian, the linguistic ancestor of all modern Polynesian languages. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiekie (plant)
Kiekie (''Freycinetia banksii'') is a densely branched, brittle, woody climber native to New Zealand. It is a member of the screwpalm family Pandanaceae. Kiekie has numerous cane-like stems up to 40 mm in diameter, which freely produce aerial roots. It climbs tree trunks, or forms dense tangles on the forest floor. Its stems and leaves are a dominant feature in many areas of New Zealand forest, the stems eventually reaching up to 30 m long. The leaves are long and slender, 60–90 cm long and 2-2.5 cm broad. Distribution Kiekie is found in forests throughout the North Island. In the South Island, kiekie is more common in higher rainfall areas, reaching its southern limit near the Clarence river in the east and in Fiordland in the west. Classification In 1973, B.C. Stone argued that ''F. banksii'' should be regarded as a subspecies of ''F. baueriana'' of Norfolk Island (Stone 1973). Subsequent to this, de Lange et al. (2005:591-592), countered Stone's argument ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiekie (clothing)
A kiekie is a Tongan dress, an ornamental girdle around the waist, mainly worn by women on semiformal occasions, but nowadays also sometimes by men. At highly formal occasions both gender will settle for a taovala. At casual occasions no girdle is needed for any gender, although women may continue wearing a kiekie even then, as it is considered an easy sitting, nice looking decoration, with which one can show off. (All taovala look more or less the same, and are usually quite stiff and hot to wear). The characteristic of a kiekie is that it is between a mat and a grass skirt ''(manafau)'': it is a string skirt attached to a waistband. It is supposed to be somewhat transparent, showing the skirt or tupenu worn under it. The strings can be short as a mini skirt, or down to the ankles, but down to somewhat above the knees is most common. Related to the kiekie is the ''sisi'', where the strings are sī leaves or plaited ''maile'' leaves, but where the waistband, full with sweet smel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiekie (spider)
''Kiekie'' is a genus of wandering spiders first described by D. Polotow and Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2018. The type species, ''Kiekie sinuatipes'', was originally described under the name "''Ctenus sinuatipes"''. Species it contains eleven species: *'' K. antioquia'' Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Colombia *'' K. barrocolorado'' Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Panama *'' K. curvipes'' ( Keyserling, 1881) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama *'' K. garifuna'' Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Guatemala, Honduras *'' K. griswoldi'' Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica *'' K. montanensis'' Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica, Panama *'' K. panamensis'' Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Panama *'' K. sanjose'' Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica *'' K. sarapiqui'' Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica *'' K. sinuatipes'' (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) (type) – Panama, Costa Rica *'' K. verbena'' Polotow & Brescovit, 2018 – Costa Rica See a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |