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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

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

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