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karengo

karengo noun: pyropia columbina, an edible seaweed.

Noun

karengo (uncountable)

  1. (New Zealand) Pyropia columbina, an edible seaweed.
    • “I also look after a stand of mushrooms hereabouts, and my patches of puha and my karengo beds are very carefully tended.”1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 106
    Synonyms:
    red laver

Synonyms of karengo

  • red laver

Forms of karengo

alternative formparengo

Origin of karengo

Borrowed from Māori karengo.

Questions about karengo

What does karengo mean?
Karengo means pyropia columbina, an edible seaweed.
What part of speech is karengo?
Karengo is a noun.

Words near karengo in the dictionary

  1. Karen haircut
  2. Karen haircuts
  3. Karen-Pahlav
  4. Karen-Pahlaw
  5. Karene
  6. karengo
  7. Karenhood
  8. Karenic
  9. Karenicity
  10. Karenism
  11. Karenlike

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