- noddy tern
- Noio kōhā, kōhā.
English-Hawaiian dictionary. 2015.
noddy tern
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Noddy (disambiguation) — Noddy may refer to: * Noddy, a young children s fictional book and TV character ** From that, a slang adjective for small, childish, trivial, trivial (mathematics) * Noddy (tern), a group of tropical seabirds in the tern family Sternidae * Noddy… … Wikipedia
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tern — Noio, eki eki (Hawaiian); kenola, tenora. Noddy tern, noio kōhā. Gray backed tern (bridled, spectacled, or gray wide awake tern), pākalakala, kala. Sooty tern, ewa ewa. Sea tern, hoi a (Ni ihau). White or fairy tern, manu o… … English-Hawaiian dictionary
Noddy — Nod dy, n.; pl. {Noddies}. [Prob. fr. nod to incline the head, either as in assent, or from drowsiness.] 1. A simpleton; a fool. L Estrange. Syn: tomnoddy. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) Any tern of the genus {Anous}, as {Anous stolidus}. (b)… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tern — Taxobox name = Terns image width = 250px image caption =Greater Crested Tern regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes subordo = Lari familia = Sternidae familia authority = Bonaparte, 1838 subdivision ranks =… … Wikipedia
tern — tern1 /terrn/, n. any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, esp.… … Universalium
noddy — nÉ‘dɪ / nÉ’ n. stupid person, fool; type dark colored aquatic bird, tropical tern … English contemporary dictionary
noddy — noun (plural noddies) 1》 dated a silly or foolish person. 2》 a tropical tern with mainly dark coloured plumage. [Genera Anous and Procelsterna.] Origin C16: prob. from nod + y1; in sense 2 perh. with ref. to the birds nodding during courtship … English new terms dictionary
