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whapuku

whapuku 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 whapuku

pluralwhapuku

Questions about whapuku

What is whapuku the alternative form of?
Whapuku is the alternative form of hapuku.

Words near whapuku in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whapuku (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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