Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A honeyeater (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) of New Zealand, having dark plumage with a tuft of white feathers at the throat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
tue .
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- noun A
New Zealand honeyeater , Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It wasn't until later that these roaches and shiners were actually identified as tui chub, which were in the system of canals, creeks and forebays, including Lemolo Lake - long before they were discovered in Diamond Lake.
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He called to mind the peculiarities of the "tui" of the natives, sometimes called the mockingbird from its incessant chuckle, and sometimes "the parson," in allusion to the white cravat it wears over its black, cassock-like plumage.
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Menziarahi lorong 'tui' untuk menyedarkan masyarakat.
Kickdefella 2009
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And when Sheikh Sa'di and Rumi have been purged of every occurrence of "shoma ', and all of Bengali literature expurgated of the odious" tui "and" apni ", then and then only will we achieve a non-hierarchic, democratic order, and not before that.
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Plebs tua te, Domine, beati Angeli sacerdotis et Martyris tui glorificatione sanctificet: et eodem intercedente te mereatur habere rectorem.
May 30 -- St Joan of Arc John 2009
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Then, bowing over the altar, he says the prayer “Perceptio corporis tui”; following the usual rite of Mass, he communicates with the Sacred Host.
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He then says in silence the prayer “Perceptio Corporis tui”, and communicates with the normal rites of Mass.
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Plebs tua te, Domine, beati Angeli sacerdotis et Martyris tui glorificatione sanctificet: et eodem intercedente te mereatur habere rectorem.
5 May -- St Angelus, O. Carm. John 2009
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Chinese media dubbed the phenomenon "guo jin, min tui," or "the state advances, society retreats."
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The DOE said it spent on the two schools a combined $8.9 million last year for the tui tion of 180 students.
chained_bear commented on the word tui
"If the researchers manage to put the huia's genome back together, they would insert the genes into artificial chromosomes, then inject the packaged DNA into the egg of a surrogate. That might be a magpie or a blackbird, or perhaps native New Zealand birds such as the tui or the kokako. She also hopes someday to bring back the moas, flightless birds that appear to have been hunted into extinction about 600 years ago."
—Richard Stone, Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001), 167
September 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word tui
The name Tui is from the Maori language name tūī, which is the species' formal common name. The English name, which has fallen into disuse, was "Parson Bird," describing the dark feathers of the bird, its small tuft of white feathers at the neck, and the small white wing patch--which namers took to resemble religious attire.
September 22, 2008