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purao

purao is the alternative form of purau.

Meaning of purau

Noun

purau (plural puraus)

  1. A Polynesian shrub or small tree, Hibiscus tiliaceus, having yellow flowers and a fibrous bark.
    • The trees that came within our knowledge were the manchineal and a species of purow […].1790, William Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny

Questions about purao

What is purao the alternative form of?
Purao is the alternative form of purau.

Words near purao in the dictionary

  1. Purandar
  2. Purania
  3. Puranic
  4. Puraniya
  5. Puranthaba
  6. purao
  7. puraque
  8. puraques
  9. Purasati
  10. purau
  11. puraus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: purao (page history and authors); purau (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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