weta
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 4
/ˈwɛtə/
(UK)
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/ˈwɛtə/ (UK) · /ˈweːtʌː/ · /ˈwedə/
Definition of weta
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(New-Zealand)Any of about 70 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand, resembling katydids or crickets.
“We came to know by heart […] her excitement on her first day at school at seeing a weta crawling on brother Willy's knee (‘Oooh, look on Willy's knee!’) […].”
“It also carried […] the forebears of wētā insects and the worm-caterpillar peripatus.”
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Etymology
Borrowed from Māori wētā.
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