单词 | maori hen |
释义 | > as lemmasMaori hen Maori hen n. New Zealand (now rare) the weka, Gallirallus australis. ΚΠ 1863 A. J. Barrington Diary 25 Dec. in N. M. Taylor Early Travellers N.Z. (1959) 393 We had a plum duff boiling..cooked four Maori hens, and had a jolly afternoon. 1874 Ibis 4 97 Wood or Maori Hen. Weka. 1966 M. E. Gillham Naturalist N.Z. 283/2 Weka or Maori hen—Gallirallus australis. 1991 P. O'Regan Aunts & Windmills 65 [Drovers in the 1920s] would recount where they heard the tui..and spotted the Maori hen (they still used the colonial term for a weka) scuttling across the road. < as lemmas |
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