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See also: Goura
English
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Etymology
[edit]From one or more of the languages of New Guinea.[1] The oldest use in the scientific literature, as a French word, may be a plate caption "La Goura de la nouvelle Guinée" in Pierre Sonnerat's Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinée. The spelling Goüra also appears in the 19th century.
Noun
[edit]goura (plural gouras)
- Any of several crested ground-dwelling pigeons, of the genus Goura, from New Guinea
References
[edit]- ^ “goura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]goura
- third-person singular past historic of gourer