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kahawai

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ka-hawai
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An edible marine fish, Arripis trutta, found around the southeastern coast of Australia and New Zealand, having a dark bluish-green body with indistinct rows of spots forming narrow irregular bands on the upper sides.

New Zealand usage

Example Sentences

Etymology

Borrowed from Māori kahawai.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

kahawais (plural)

Synonyms

Australian salmon

Questions

What does kahawai mean?
An edible marine fish, Arripis trutta, found around the southeastern coast of Australia and New Zealand, having a dark bluish-green body with indistinct rows of spots forming narrow irregular bands on the upper sides.
Where does kahawai come from?
Borrowed from Māori kahawai.

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