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Stewart Island shag

Stewart Island shag noun: a species of shag, Leucocarbo chalconotus, endemic to New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island.

Noun

Stewart Island shag (plural Stewart Island shags)

  1. (New Zealand) A species of shag, Leucocarbo chalconotus, endemic to New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island.
    • Other birds are beating in an ungainly way against it, getting nowhere fast. […] “Stewart Island shags, and I don't know the Maori for that…kawau rakiura, perhaps?”1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 168

Forms of Stewart Island shag

pluralStewart Island shags

Questions about Stewart Island shag

What does Stewart Island shag mean?
Stewart Island shag means a species of shag, Leucocarbo chalconotus, endemic to New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island.
What part of speech is Stewart Island shag?
Stewart Island shag is a noun.
What is the plural of Stewart Island shag?
The plural of Stewart Island shag is Stewart Island shags.

Words near Stewart Island shag in the dictionary

  1. Stewardson
  2. Stewardsons
  3. Stewart
  4. Stewart County
  5. Stewart Island
  6. Stewart Island shag
  7. Stewart Island shags
  8. Stewart's disease
  9. Stewart's theorem
  10. Stewart's wilt
  11. Stewart-Treves syndrome

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