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kiores

kiores is the plural of kiore.

Meaning of kiore

Noun

kiore (plural kiores or kiore)

  1. (New Zealand) The Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans.
    • The only means of transport available to kiore was Polynesian vessels.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 6

Questions about kiores

What is kiores the plural of?
Kiores is the plural of kiore.

Words near kiores in the dictionary

  1. kionobiont
  2. kionoceratid
  3. kionoceratids
  4. Kiora
  5. kiore
  6. kiores
  7. kiosk
  8. kiosked
  9. kiosker
  10. kioskers
  11. kiosklike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kiores (page history and authors); kiore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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