tui
/ˈtuːi/
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New Zealand/ˈtʉi/
tui noun: a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand.
Noun (1)
tui (plural tui or tuis)
- A species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand.
- [A]ll was quiet, beautiful, and serene; the only sounds which broke the calm were the wild notes of the tooe (or New Zealand blackbird), the splashing of our own oars, or the occasional flight of a wild duck (or shag), disturbed by our approach.1832, Augustus Earle, A Narrative of a Nine Months’ Residence in New Zealand, in 1827; […], London: […] [A. & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […], →OCLC, page 174
- The most frequently visible of these feathered denizens of the forest is the Tui (Prostemadera novæ Zelandiæ), called 'the parson' by Captain [James] Cook, in consequence of its having two white feathers in the lower part of its neck resembling bands. In colour and shape it is very like the...1863, Karl [von] Scherzer, “Auckland”, in Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, […], volume III, London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 159
- Synonyms:
- mockingbird, parson bird, poë, poë-bird
Noun (2) capitalized: TUI
TUI (plural TUIs)
- Initialism of text-based user interface or terminal user interface.
- Initialism of tangible user interface.
- Initialism of touch user interface.
Proper noun capitalized: Tui
Tui
- A town in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.
Examples of tui in a sentence
- Charles Enderby showed us a New Zealand Tui, or parson-bird, in a glass case, which he had kept alive in England for two years.1884, R[obert] McCormick, chapter XVI, in Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World: […], volume II...
- The Pigeon (Carpophaga Novæ Zealandiæ) and Tui or Parson Bird (Prosthemadera Novæ Zealandiæ) are certain also to become rare birds.1921, H[erbert] Guthrie-Smith, “The Future of Native Avifauna”, in Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station, Edinburgh; London...
- But it was the Tui Marina end that lingers in the memory.a. 1973, Eileen Duggan, “[Appendix: Selected Prose] A Few New Zealand Roads”, in Peter Whiteford, editor, Selected Poems, Wellington...
Synonyms of tui
Forms of tui
| plural | tui |
|---|---|
| plural | tuis |
| plural | TUIs |
Origin of tui
Borrowed from Māori tūī.
Words that rhyme with tui
Questions about tui
- What does tui mean?
- Tui means a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand.
- How do you use tui in a sentence?
- Charles Enderby showed us a New Zealand Tui, or parson-bird, in a glass case, which he had kept alive in England for two years.
- What part of speech is tui?
- Tui can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tui?
- Tui is pronounced /ˈtʉi/ (New Zealand).
- What is the plural of tui?
- The plural of tui is tui.
Words near tui in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tui (page history and authors); TUI (page history and authors); Tui (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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