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Definition of Hapuku

Hapuku
Hapuku Ha*pu"ku, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.

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- The hāpuku, hapuka or whapuku (Polyprion oxygeneios), also known as groper, is a wreckfish of the family Polyprionidae, found around southern Australia...
- The Hāpuku River begins in the Seaward Kaikōura Range of New Zealand and flows south-east to enter the South Pacific at Hapuka, between Clarence and Kaikōura...
- Te Hapuku (died 1878), sometimes known as Te Ika-nui-o-te-moana, was a Māori leader of the Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti hapū of the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi in Hawke's...
- Te Hapuku (formerly Marie-Adele McArthur) is an operatic soprano from Gisborne, New Zealand, and is a direct descendant of the Māori chief, Te Hapuku.,...
- Polyprion oxygeneios, which goes by the name hapuka (from the Māori language hāpuku). In the Philippines, groupers are generally known as lapu-lapu in Luzon...
- Scorpaena cardinalis, the eastern red scorpionfish, grandfather hapuku, cardinal scorpionfish, Cook's scorpionfish, Cook's rockcod, Kermadec scorpionfish...
- from the beach at Waimarama. Some chiefs, such as Kurupo Te Moananui, Te Hapuku, and Tiakitai, remained in Heretaunga, but most joined the exodus. By the...
- (Atlantic wreckfish) Polyprion oxygeneios (Schneider & Forster, 1801) (Hāpuku) The genera Lateolabrax and Stereolepis have previously been classified...
- Birdlings Flat, originally named Te Mata Hapuku, is a settlement in Canterbury, New Zealand, at the eastern end of Kaitorete Spit and the southern end...
- come to the islands as a refuge during times of warfare, and to harvest hāpuku, seabirds and eggs. `Most of the larger islands were inhabited, and the...