kumara
/ˈkuːməɹə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A small town on the West Coast, South Island, New Zealand.
Example Sentences
- "They introduced the gourd, taro and kumara from the Polynesian Islands to the New Zealanders."
- "“And once, a woman threw a piece of cooked kumara at me and I ducked, and laughed…”"
- "In contrast to everything else that these migrant people had lugged from island to island, the kūmara had not come from the west."