Etymology

toheroa

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Today it means: Paphies ventricosa, a large edible bivalve mollusc endemic to New Zealand. Full definition →

Māori toheroa
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  1. Māori · borrowed fromtoheroa
  2. English todaytoheroa

Borrowed from Māori toheroa (literally “long tongue”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.