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Definition of Kumara
1. the sweet potato [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kumara
Literary usage of Kumara
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Progress in Australasia by Michael Davitt (1898)
"I went to kumara and Hokitika, south of Greymouth, to see these mining ...
The gold mining at kumara is sluicing. The yellow grains are found as at ..."
2. Maori Lore: The Traditions of the Maori People, with the More Important of by George Grey (1904)
"He declares, "Each tribe has its own kumara, which were brought in the ...
Thus Turi brought kumara; Kaha-kura either brought kumara originally or went for ..."
3. A Handbook for Travellers in New Zealand: Auckland, the Hot Lake District by John Murray (Firm), F. W. Pennefather (1893)
"The lake is surrounded by hills, with dense and varied bush growing down to the
water's edge. (3) To Boss. See Ete. 29. ROUTE 20. HOKITIKA BY kumara, THE ..."
4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... it is the bird sacred to their Mars (kumara\ as it wns to Juno, his mother,
in the west. The feather of the peacock is used to ..."
5. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1896)
"He also brought the kumara (sweet potato), which he planted on the island, but
it would not grow. This was the karakia (incantation) :— kumara no ..."
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