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pūkeko

US/ˈpuːkɛkoʊ/

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New Zealand/ˈpʉːkeko/

pūkeko noun: australasian swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus).

pūkeko: australasian swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)
Image: Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

pūkeko (plural pūkeko or pūkekos)

  1. (New Zealand) Australasian swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus).
    • I had my place to sit, on the fallen birch log by the creek, where I could watch the pukeko, the ducks and the eels, and look through the sheltering willows to the paddock […].1984, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 211

Forms of pūkeko

pluralpūkeko
pluralpūkekos
alternative formpukeko

Origin of pūkeko

Borrowed from Māori pūkeko.

Questions about pūkeko

What does pūkeko mean?
Pūkeko means australasian swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus).
What part of speech is pūkeko?
Pūkeko is a noun.
How do you pronounce pūkeko?
Pūkeko is pronounced /ˈpuːkɛkoʊ/ (US).
What is the plural of pūkeko?
The plural of pūkeko is pūkeko.

Words near pūkeko in the dictionary

  1. pœnology
  2. Pœuilly
  3. Přemyslid
  4. Přemyslids
  5. Přerov
  6. pūkeko
  7. p͛-
  8. p͛judice
  9. p🥚
  10. p🥚ed
  11. p🥚ing

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