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单词 umu
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Definition of umu in English:

umu

noun 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.

Origin

Maori.

 
 

Definition of umu in US English:

umu

nounˈo͝omo͞o
  • 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.

Origin

Maori.

 
 
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