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Maori
Noun
toroa
- an albatross, especially the royal albatross
- Ka pakaru ngā kākahu, ka tuia he kākahu mō rātou ki te kiri kekeno, he iwi toroa ngā ngira. ― When their clothes were ragged they sewed garments of seal skins and the needles were of albatross bone.
- Me te pōhoi toroa tērā, pūaho ana ― Like the intensely white down of the albatross
- a tuft of albatross down worn as an adornment.
References
- “toroa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.