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fatu-liva

fatu-liva noun: a fictional bird invented as a hoax in the 1920s, said to lay cubical spotted eggs resembling dice.

Noun

fatu-liva (plural fatu-livas)

  1. A fictional bird invented as a hoax in the 1920s, said to lay cubical spotted eggs resembling dice.

Forms of fatu-liva

pluralfatu-livas

Origin of fatu-liva

Perhaps named from the island of Fatu Hiva, which means "strange rock" in the Marquesan language.

Questions about fatu-liva

What does fatu-liva mean?
Fatu-liva means a fictional bird invented as a hoax in the 1920s, said to lay cubical spotted eggs resembling dice.
What part of speech is fatu-liva?
Fatu-liva is a noun.
What is the plural of fatu-liva?
The plural of fatu-liva is fatu-livas.

Words near fatu-liva in the dictionary

  1. fatty cutty
  2. fatty liver
  3. fatty livers
  4. fatty oil
  5. fatty oils
  6. fatu-liva
  7. fatu-livas
  8. fatuism
  9. fatuities
  10. fatuitous
  11. fatuitousness

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