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Stewart Island shags

Stewart Island shags is the plural of Stewart Island shag.

Meaning of Stewart Island shag

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

Questions about Stewart Island shags

What is Stewart Island shags the plural of?
Stewart Island shags is the plural of Stewart Island shag.

Words near Stewart Island shags in the dictionary

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

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