toheroa

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Māori toheroa (literally “long tongue”). === Noun === toheroa (plural toheroas) (New Zealand) Paphies ventricosa, a large edible bivalve mollusc endemic to New Zealand. == Māori == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *tofe (“bivalve mollusc”) +‎ roa (“long”). === Noun === toheroa toheroa (edible bivalve) Synonym: moeone ==== Related terms ==== tohemanga === Further reading === “toheroa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.