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nene

ne·ne

Today it means: The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957. Full definition →

Hawaiian nēnē

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Hawaiian · borrowed fromnēnē
English todaynene

Borrowed from Hawaiian nēnē, which is imitative of the bird’s call.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.