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wetas

wetas is the plural of weta.

Meaning of weta

Noun

weta (plural weta or wetas)

  1. (New Zealand) Any of about 70 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand, resembling katydids or crickets.
    • We came to know by heart […] her excitement on her first day at school at seeing a weta crawling on brother Willy's knee (‘Oooh, look on Willy's knee!’) […].1982, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 5

Phrases with wetas

Questions about wetas

What is wetas the plural of?
Wetas is the plural of weta.

Words near wetas in the dictionary

  1. wet-weather tire
  2. wet-weather tires
  3. wet-weather tyre
  4. wet-weather tyres
  5. weta
  6. wetas
  7. Wetaskiwin
  8. wetawd
  9. wetawds
  10. wetback
  11. wetbacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wetas (page history and authors); weta (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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