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nēnē

nēnē is the alternative form of nene.

Meaning of nene

Noun

nene (plural nenes or nene)

  1. The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
    • Ohelo Vaccinium reticulatum (and V. peleanum) and kukaenene Coprosma ernodeoides […] are the most important berries in the Nenes’ diet, and it is probably from such juicy fruit that much of their water intake comes.1980, Janet Kear, A. J. Berger, “The Hawaiian Goose or Nene”, in The Hawaiian Goose: An Experiment in Conservation, Calton, Staffordshire: T. & A. D. Poyser, →ISBN; reprinted London: T. & A. D....
    Synonyms:
    Hawaiian goose, nēnē goose

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Forms of nēnē

pluralnēnēs

Questions about nēnē

What is nēnē the alternative form of?
Nēnē is the alternative form of nene.

Words near nēnē in the dictionary

  1. Năeni
  2. Nămoloasa
  3. Năpradea
  4. Năruja
  5. Nēhiyawēwin
  6. nēnē
  7. nēnēs
  8. nīhithawīwin
  9. Nłeʔkepmx
  10. Nłeʔkepmxcín
  11. nō

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nēnē (page history and authors); nene (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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