ahuru

British

/ ˈɑːˌhuːruː /

noun

Also called: ahuruhuru. a small pink cod, Auchenoceros punctatus , of SW Pacific waters

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Etymology

Origin of ahuru

Māori

Example Sentences

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The Polynesians, like the Algonquins, then say, ten and one for eleven, &c., till twenty, which is erua ahuru, this is two tens; twenty-one consists of the terms for two tens and one.

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