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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, natural-sciences
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History
Borrowed from Māori hāpua (“be hollow, depressed like a valley, be hollowed out, scooped out”).
