Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[From the native Maori name.]

(Zool.)

An edible fresh-water New Zealand fish (

Prototroctes oxyrhynchus

) of the family

Haplochitonidae

. In general appearance and habits, it resembles the northern lake whitefishes and trout. Called also

grayling

upokororo ‎(plural upokororos)