hoki

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hoki

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Borrowed from Māori hoki (“blue grenadier”).

noun hoki

The blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake. Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

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@misc{hoki_2026,
  title = {hoki},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hoki},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}