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kaka

/kah-kuh/US // ˈkɑ kə //UK // (ˈkɑːkə) //

卡卡

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several New Zealand parrots of the genus Nestor, especially N. meridionalis, having chiefly greenish and olive-brown plumage.

Examples

  • From then on, Rahma referred to the man as “Miskin Kaka,” or “Poor Uncle.”

  • Even after the wrongful dismissal of Kaka, the Seleçao never looked in trouble.

  • Loath were they to leave the place of the Kaka and the lake of their dead.

  • Two more joined him, and spent the night on board in singing a kaka or song of love for their visitors.

  • The large parrot may be the Kaka, although there is no blue in the plumage of the Kaka (Nestor meridionalis).

  • Possibly kaka is a popular or vulgar name for a cray-fish or a crab.

  • He carried no weapon but his sacred taiaha, his tongue-pointed staff of hardwood, ornamented with a plume of red kaka feathers.