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mia mias

mia mias is the plural of mia mia.

Meaning of mia mia

Noun

mia mia (plural mia mias)

  1. (Australia) An aboriginal shelter made from bark, a gunya.
    • On the point of this “spear” they erected what looked like a mia-mia, a hut made of branches by the blacks ; across the road opposite to it the trunk of a tree was dragged, leaving a narrow track along which the escort must defile.1913, William Henry Fitchett, The New World of the South: Australia in the Making, 2006 Elibron Classics, page 391
    Synonyms:
    gunya, humpy, wurly

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Questions about mia mias

What is mia mias the plural of?
Mia mias is the plural of mia mia.

Words near mia mias in the dictionary

  1. mia
  2. mia luang
  3. Mia Maid
  4. Mia Maids
  5. mia mia
  6. mia mias
  7. mia noi
  8. mia nois
  9. MIAA
  10. Miabas
  11. miacid

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