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goura

See also: Goura

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Etymology edit

From one or more of the languages of New Guinea.[1] The oldest use in the scientific literature, as a French word, may be a plate caption "La Goura de la nouvelle Guinée" in Pierre Sonnerat's Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinée. The spelling Goüra also appears in the 19th century.

Noun edit

goura (plural gouras)

  1. Any of several crested ground-dwelling pigeons, of the genus Goura, from New Guinea

References edit

  1. ^ “goura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Verb edit

goura

  1. third-person singular past historic of gourer
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