tuatera
tuatera is the alternative form of tuatara.
Meaning of tuatara
Noun
tuatara (plural tuataras or tuatara)
- A reptile, Sphenodon punctatus, native to New Zealand, that resembles a lizard and is the only surviving specimen of the order Rhynchocephalia.
- In New Zealand the dinosaurs had perished 65 million years before, as they had elsewhere on the globe; but the sphenodons or tuataras who had been their contemporaries from Jurassic times persisted, in New Zealand but nowhere else, for reasons that remain obscure.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 4
Forms of tuatera
| plural | tuateras |
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Questions about tuatera
- What is tuatera the alternative form of?
- Tuatera is the alternative form of tuatara.
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