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Definition of umu in English: umunoun ˈʊmʊˈo͝omo͞o A Maori oven consisting of a hollow in the earth in which food is cooked on heated stones. Example sentencesExamples - Food is prepared in an umu, an oven dug in the earth and filled with firewood and basalt rocks.
- I know how to prepare an umu or earth oven.
- In an out-door pit that Tongans call an umu, a whole pig is roasted with foods like chicken, fish, meat, sweet potatoes, fish and taro (a starchy tuber).
- Similar ovens were constructed by the Maori in New Zealand but, although they were called umu ti, the plant baked was a different species, the New Zealand cabbage tree, Cordyline australis.
- The feast is overflowing with pork, delivered whole on spits from underground umu ovens.
Definition of umu in US English: umunounˈo͝omo͞o A Maori oven consisting of a hollow in the earth in which food is cooked on heated stones. Example sentencesExamples - Similar ovens were constructed by the Maori in New Zealand but, although they were called umu ti, the plant baked was a different species, the New Zealand cabbage tree, Cordyline australis.
- In an out-door pit that Tongans call an umu, a whole pig is roasted with foods like chicken, fish, meat, sweet potatoes, fish and taro (a starchy tuber).
- I know how to prepare an umu or earth oven.
- Food is prepared in an umu, an oven dug in the earth and filled with firewood and basalt rocks.
- The feast is overflowing with pork, delivered whole on spits from underground umu ovens.
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