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单词 parera
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pareran.

Brit. /ˈpɑːrɛrə/, U.S. /ˈpɑrɛrə/, New Zealand English /ˈpʌːrerʌ/, /ˈpʌːrerə/
Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Forms: 1800s pareira, 1800s parrera, 1900s parra.
Origin: A borrowing from Maori. Etymon: Maori pārera.
Etymology: < Maori pārera (1820 as Paréra in S. Lee & T. Kendall Gram. & Vocab. Lang. N.Z., glossed ‘a duck, a goose’).A form panada is once recorded earlier in English:1817 J. L. Nicholas Narr. Voy. N.Z. II. 339 A duck Panada.
New Zealand.
The Pacific black duck, Anas superciliosa. Also called grey duck (New Zealand).
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1835 W. Yate Acct. N.Z. (ed. 2) ii. 57 Parera, or Wild Duck—These birds exactly resemble the common English wild-duck. They are of a fine flavour.
1894 C. W. Richmond Let. 22 Mar. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) II. x. 597 Your Uncle James got a pot-shot at a lot of parera (grey duck) and knocked over seven.
1935 N.Z. Free Lance Christmas Ann. 14 Oct. 31 The native grey duck or ‘parera’..is one of the Dominion's finest sporting birds.
1940 Tales of Pioneer Women (1988) 249 The hunters caught poaka (wild pigs), parera (grey duck), putakitaki (paradise duck), kereru or kuku (pigeon), and hurepo (bittern).
1988 B. Mikaere Te Maiharoa & Promised Land 75 There were putakitaki (paradise ducks), parera (grey ducks), tataa (brown ducks) and whio (blue ducks).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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