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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Hua Moa" just sounds right for a banana that size. I can picture the person that named it making those sounds as a reaction to seeing it, and then just going with that as the name.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Hua moa" is Hawaiian for "chicken egg."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

If that's true... It's not a very apt name for it. Unless Hawaii has some mega chickens I don't know about.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, there certainly are a shit load of chickens around, but that's a newer development.

Hua can also mean fruit, so it's possible it means "chicken fruit." I'm not sure that makes any more sense, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Could just be cos yellow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unless they mean it looks like an egg the size of a full-grown chicken.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure they mean a Moa chicken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I think the chicken came before new Zealand in this scenario. The Polynesian word for chicken is moa and they had chickens before the maori were hunting the big chickens.