amokura

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori amokura.

Noun

amokura (plural amokuras)

1. Synonym of red-tailed tropicbird
   • 1981, Richard Anthony Benton, The Flight of the Amokura: Oceanic Languages and Formal Education in the South Pacific:

     The amokura (Phaethon rubicauda), the red-tailed tropic bird, known in New Zealand as tawake or amokura, in Hawaii as koa'e'ula, tava'e'ula in Samoa, tavakemoerangi in Rarotonga, […]

Anagrams

• Muraoka, Okamura

Maori

Noun

amokura

1. red-tailed tropicbird