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Webster 1913 Edition


Morepork

More′porkˊ

,
Noun.
[So named from its cry.]
(Zool.)
The Australian crested goatsucker (
Aegotheles Novae-Hollandiae
). Also applied to other allied birds, as
Podargus Cuveiri
.

Definition 2024


morepork

morepork

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Noun

morepork (plural moreporks)

  1. (chiefly New Zealand) The boobook owl Ninox novaeseelandiae. [from 19th c.]

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