aua
nounalso spelled AUAEtymology Borrowed from Māori aua.
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New Zealand Aldrichetta forsteri, a mullet of the family Mugilidae.
- When the eyes of those who fish for eels are closed, the eyes of those who fish for the aua are open.1855, Richard Taylor, Te Ika a Maui: Or, New Zealand and Its Inhabitants, page 133:
- The Picton Herring, a dried fish commonly known throughout the colony, is the Aua preserved by smoking.1872, Frederick Wollaston Hutton, Sir James Hector, Fishes of New Zealand: Catalogue with Diagnoses of the Species: