tui

May. 5th, 2008 07:21 am
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Back to one last week of Words My True Love Gave Me:


tui - n., a New Zealand honeyeater bird (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae), black with a patch of white on either side of its throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.


Pronounced TOO-ee; plural is identical. Formerly also called the parson bird, but now called exclusively by its Maori name.

(Am I the only person bemused that LJ's spellcheck doesn't recognize "Zealand"?)

---L.
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