akiapolaau

[ah-kee-ah-poh-lah-ou]

noun

a rare yellow Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hemignathus munroi, having a long slender down-curved upper bill and a short straight lower bill.

Origin:
< Hawaiian ʿakiapolaʿau

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Akiapolaau has a plethora of syllables.

So is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Does it mean:

(used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.)

an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language.

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