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Maori
Etymology
From ngaro (“fly, similar plump flying insect”) + huruhuru (“fur”) altogether lit. “furry fly”
Noun
ngaro huruhuru
- bee, any native pollinating insect in the family Colletidae of pan-apian clade Anthophila.[1]
References
- ^ Ngaire Hart (2018) Ngaro Huruhuru o Aotearoa, Manaaki Whenua
Further reading
- “ngaro huruhuru” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.