tauhou
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Maori.
Noun[edit]
tauhou (plural tauhous)
- (New Zealand) A bird, the silvereye.
- 1973, Walter Imber, Kenneth Brailey Cumberland, R B Rains, New Zealand: Pacific land down under:
- Also in this group is the tauhou or silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) and two honey-eaters […]
- 1997, Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, Mark Williams, An anthology of New Zealand poetry in English:
- There was one tauhou preternaturally wary and, somehow, knowing […]
Maori[edit]
Noun[edit]
tauhou