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minus-squareMuscar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months ago“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.
minus-squaremwproductions@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months ago“Hua moa” is Hawaiian for “chicken egg.”
minus-squareRGB3x3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoIf that’s true… It’s not a very apt name for it. Unless Hawaii has some mega chickens I don’t know about.
minus-squareowenfromcanada@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoUnless they mean it looks like an egg the size of a full-grown chicken.
minus-squareangrystego@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoI’m sure they mean a Moa chicken.
minus-squaremwproductions@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoI 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.
“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.
“Hua moa” is Hawaiian for “chicken egg.”
If that’s true… It’s not a very apt name for it. Unless Hawaii has some mega chickens I don’t know about.
Unless they mean it looks like an egg the size of a full-grown chicken.
I’m sure they mean a Moa chicken.
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.
Could just be cos yellow.