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wharepunis

wharepunis is the plural of wharepuni.

Meaning of wharepuni

Noun

wharepuni (plural wharepuni or wharepunis)

  1. (New Zealand) A large building in Maori communities for communal sleeping or for group meetings; a meeting house.
    • The dwellings of the chiefs are surrounded with enclosures of pole-fences; and the Whares and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very fine specimens of the Maori order of architecture, are ornamented with grotesque wood-carvings.1867, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, translated by Edward Sauter, “Ngawhas, and Puias; boiling springs, solfataras and fumaroles”, in New Zealand: Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History […]...

Questions about wharepunis

What is wharepunis the plural of?
Wharepunis is the plural of wharepuni.

Words near wharepunis in the dictionary

  1. whare wānanga
  2. wharekai
  3. wharenui
  4. wharenuis
  5. wharepuni
  6. wharepunis
  7. whares
  8. wharf
  9. wharf borer
  10. wharf borers
  11. wharf crab

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