hapua

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    a river-mouth lagoon, chiefly in New Zealand, formed at the interface between a braided river and a mixed sand and gravel beach deposited and extended by longshore drift.

词源

Borrowed from Māori hāpua (“be hollow, depressed like a valley, be hollowed out, scooped out”).

来源：wiktionary