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hoki

hoki noun: the blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake.

Noun

hoki (plural hoki)

  1. The blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake.
    • Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times

Forms of hoki

pluralhoki

Origin of hoki

Borrowed from Māori hoki (“blue grenadier”).

Questions about hoki

What does hoki mean?
Hoki means the blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake.
What part of speech is hoki?
Hoki is a noun.
What is the plural of hoki?
The plural of hoki is hoki.

Words near hoki in the dictionary

  1. hokeyness
  2. hokeypokey
  3. hokeypokeys
  4. Hokhma
  5. Hokhmah
  6. hoki
  7. hokie
  8. Hokien
  9. hokier
  10. Hokies
  11. hokiest

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