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koloa

koloa noun: the Hawaiian duck, Anas wyvilliana.

Noun

koloa (plural koloas)

  1. The Hawaiian duck, Anas wyvilliana.
    • The Hawaiian duck or koloa (Anas wyvilliana) has never been reduced to anything like the pitiful remnant that once represented its relatives on Laysan.2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 83

Forms of koloa

pluralkoloas

Origin of koloa

Borrowed from Hawaiian koloa, from Proto-Polynesian *toloa (“duck”).

Questions about koloa

What does koloa mean?
Koloa means the Hawaiian duck, Anas wyvilliana.
What part of speech is koloa?
Koloa is a noun.
What is the plural of koloa?
The plural of koloa is koloas.

Words near koloa in the dictionary

  1. Kolmogorov spaces
  2. Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem
  3. Kolmogorovian
  4. kolo
  5. kolo mee
  6. koloa
  7. koloas
  8. Kolob
  9. kolobion
  10. kolobok
  11. koloboks

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