kahawai means an edible marine fish, Arripis trutta, found around the southeastern coast of Australia and New Zealand, having a dark bluish-green body with indistinct rows of spots forming narrow irregular bands on the upper sides. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
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- An edible marine fish, Arripis trutta, found around the southeastern coast of Australia and New Zealand, having a dark bluish-green body with indistinct rows of spots forming narrow irregular bands on the upper sides.“Māori oratory of those years began to employ proverbs about […] the propensity of the kahawai for devouring the mullet.”