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Plural of tui

irregular plural

The plural of tui is tui or tuis.

Forms of tui

Singulartui /ˈtʉi/
Pluraltui /ˈtʉi/
tuis
Countablecountable

Tuis in a sentence

  • It was haunted by tuis, great insolent Carusos, who would half throw a note and then break off in the middle in sheer delight at their own marvellousness or in sudden greed.a. 1973, Eileen Duggan, “[Appendix: Selected Prose] A Few New Zealand Roads”, in Peter Whiteford, editor, Selected Poems, Wellington...

Meaning of tui

  1. noun A species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand.

Full definition of tui

Plural the same as the singular

Questions about the plural of tui

What is the plural of tui?
The plural of tui is tui or tuis.
Is tui countable?
Tui is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tui (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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