Meaning of kahawai | Babel Free

Definitions

An edible marine fish, Arripis trutta, found around the southeastern coast of Australia and New Zealand, having a dark bluish-green body with indistinct rows of spots forming narrow irregular bands on the upper sides.

New-Zealand

Examples

“Māori oratory of those years began to employ proverbs about […] the propensity of the kahawai for devouring the mullet.”

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