Crossword clues for puna
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puna \Pu"na\, n. [Sp., of Peruv. origin.] A cold arid table-land, as in the Andes of Peru.
Wiktionary
alt. An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population. n. An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population.
Wikipedia
Puna may refer to:
- Puna grassland, a type of grassland in the central part of the high Andes
- Puna (mythology), the king of Hiti-marama or of Vavau in the Tuamotu legend of Rata
- Puna, Hawaii, a district in the east-southeast portion of the Island of Hawaii
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Puná Island, an island off the coast of southern Ecuador
- Battle of Puná, a battle fought between Spanish conquistadors and Puná natives
- Altiplano or Puna, a region that covers part of Bolivia, Peru, and the northern end of Argentina and Chile
- Maihueniopsis or Puna, a cactus genus
- Puna de Atacama, a plateau in the Andes
- Puna, Pakistan, village in Punjab, Pakistan
- Puna, Gujarat, town in Gujarat, India
In the Polynesian mythology of the Tuamotu archipelago in the South Pacific, Puna is the king of Hiti-marama or of Vavau, depending on the story.
In one story, Vahieroa weds Matamata-taua, also called Tahiti To‘erau. On the night of their son Rata's birth, the parents go fishing. They are snatched away by the demon bird belonging to the Puna, king of Hiti-marama, "an island north of [present-day] Pitcairn and Elizabeth but long since swallowed in the sea." The bird Matatata‘ota‘o bites off the chief's head and swallows it whole. The wife is placed head downward as a food holder in the house of Puna's wife Te-vahine-hua-rei (Beckwith 1970:261).
In a second version, Vahi-vero is the son of Kui, a demigod of Hawaiki, and a goblin woman named Rima-roa. Kui plants food trees and vegetables and is also a great fisherman. The goblin woman Rima-roa robs his garden; he lies in wait and seizes her, and she bears him the son Vahi-vero. Vahi-vero visits a pool from which the beautiful Tahiti-tokerau daily emerges. Kui teaches him how to lie in wait and seize her, and never let her go until she says his name. Having mastered her, he finds that Puna, king of Vavau, is his rival.
Vahi-vero goes by way of the pool to the place where Puna guards the girl in a house with round ends, and leaves her sister Huarehu in her place, taking Tahiti-tokerau away with him. Tahiti-tokerau bears him the boy Rata. Puna comes in shark form for vengeance and kills Vahi-vero before taking his wife back. He turns her eyes into lights for her sister to make sennit (magi-magi) and her feet into supports for the sister's work basket (Beckwith 1970:261).
Usage examples of "puna".
He looked at Puna, seated by her mother, her eyes on the distant hills.
He had not realized that Puna was a grown up girls now, tall, slim and beautiful.
At the summit Puna and Abi shouted in unison, how beautiful the place was.
Next morning when Puna was serving him his morning cup of herbal porridge, he looked up at her.
He had told Puna several times, to be careful, to keep her distance from the men, not to argue with them, not to go out alone from the village.
It had been agreed that Sumana would assist Puna in her work, but Puna knew that it was an arrangement for her safety more than the contribution that Sumana could make in her work.
From that moment Puna decided to be more alert about what was happening around her.
Reta told the engineer, as he sat down with Puna to go through the progress of the project.
Sumana were also worried and Puna thought that they were not happy about Puna holding back about her illness from them.
Her friends attributed the aloofness which they noticed in Puna to her ill health, and left earlier than they had planned, saying that Puna should take more rest and recover her health.
They knew how delicately their eco-system was balanced, though they would not have been able to express it in words, to explain it to Puna or any other city person.
She explained to Puna the value of the small insects they found in the rice fields.
She had a fleeting impression of Puna and the others thrown into the water amid the sharks, who were also whipped around helplessly.
When his sonar picked up large swimming objects, he thought he had found his reluctant allies, but the approaching creatures turned out to be the sharks bearing Puna and her family.
That first murder, strangling the beautiful Puna who had seen through him and denounced him to his face, that was the crime that had set his subsequent decline in motion.