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whapuka

whapuka is the alternative form of hapuku.

Meaning of hapuku

Noun

hapuku (plural hapukus or hapuku)

  1. A large and valuable food fish, Polyprion oxygeneios, in the family Serranidae of New Zealand.

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Forms of whapuka

pluralwhapuka

Questions about whapuka

What is whapuka the alternative form of?
Whapuka is the alternative form of hapuku.

Words near whapuka in the dictionary

  1. whapped
  2. whapper
  3. whappers
  4. whapping
  5. whaps
  6. whapuka
  7. whapuku
  8. whar
  9. wharangi
  10. Wharanui
  11. whare

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whapuka (page history and authors); hapuku (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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