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Maori
Etymology
From moko (“lizard”) + nui (“big”).
Noun
mokonui
- dinosaur
Further reading
- “mokonui” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.