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tuis

tuis is the plural of tui.

Meaning of tui

Noun

tui (plural tui or tuis)

  1. 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

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Noun capitalized: TUIs

TUIs

  1. (plural) plural of TUI

Questions about tuis

What is tuis the plural of?
Tuis is the plural of tui.
What part of speech is tuis?
Tuis is a noun.

Words near tuis in the dictionary

  1. Tuinal
  2. Tuinals
  3. Tuinstra
  4. Tuinstras
  5. TUIO
  6. tuis
  7. Tuisawau
  8. Tuisawaus
  9. tuism
  10. tuit
  11. tuite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tuis (page history and authors); TUIs (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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