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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(New Zealand) An edible marine fish, Arripis trutta, found around the southeastern coast of Australia and New Zealand, having a dark bluish-green body with indistinct rows of spots forming narrow irregular bands on the upper sides..
Māori oratory of those years began to employ proverbs about […] the propensity of the kahawai for devouring the mullet.
Use kahawai when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Kahawai means (New Zealand) An edible marine fish, Arripis trutta, found around the southeastern coast of Australia and New Zealand, having a dark bluish-green body with indistinct rows of spots forming narrow irregular bands on the upper sides..
Common synonyms include Australian salmon.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Māori oratory of those years began to employ proverbs about […] the propensity of the kahawai for devouring the mullet.
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