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Meaning of kumara | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈkuːməɹə

Definitions

  1. A small town on the West Coast, South Island, New Zealand.
  2. The sweet potato.
    New-Zealand

Examples

“They introduced the gourd, taro and kumara from the Polynesian Islands to the New Zealanders.”
““And once, a woman threw a piece of cooked kumara at me and I ducked, and laughed…””
“In contrast to everything else that these migrant people had lugged from island to island, the kūmara had not come from the west.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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