• Tauhou

    Origin

    From Maori

    Full definition of tauhou

    Noun

    tauhou

    1. (New Zealand) A bird, the silvereye.
      • 1973, Walter Imber, Kenneth Brailey Cumberland, R B Rains, New Zealand: Pacific land down underAlso in this group is the tauhou or silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) and two honey-eaters...
      • 1997, Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, Mark Williams, An anthology of New Zealand poetry in EnglishThere was one tauhou preternaturally wary and, somehow, knowing...
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