"kumara" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mi",
        "3": "kūmara"
      },
      "expansion": "Maori kūmara",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Maori kūmara.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kumaras",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kumara",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "kumara"
      },
      "expansion": "kumara (plural kumaras or kumara)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New Zealand English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Morning glory family plants",
          "orig": "en:Morning glory family plants",
          "parents": [
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "suck the kumara"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 98:",
          "text": "In 1350 five canoes reached New Zealand manned by Maori voyagers carrying the dog on purpose and the rat by mistake. They introduced the gourd, taro and kumara from the Polynesian Islands to the New Zealanders.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sweet potato."
      ],
      "id": "en-kumara-en-noun-GU6Fd4uH",
      "links": [
        [
          "sweet potato",
          "sweet potato"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(New Zealand) A sweet potato."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkuːməɹə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkʰʉːm(ə)ɹʷɐ]",
      "tags": [
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkʰʉːmɐɾɐ]",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kumara"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "suck the kumara"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mi",
        "3": "kūmara"
      },
      "expansion": "Maori kūmara",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Maori kūmara.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kumaras",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kumara",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "kumara"
      },
      "expansion": "kumara (plural kumaras or kumara)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English indeclinable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms borrowed from Maori",
        "English terms derived from Maori",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "New Zealand English",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Morning glory family plants"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 98:",
          "text": "In 1350 five canoes reached New Zealand manned by Maori voyagers carrying the dog on purpose and the rat by mistake. They introduced the gourd, taro and kumara from the Polynesian Islands to the New Zealanders.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sweet potato."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sweet potato",
          "sweet potato"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(New Zealand) A sweet potato."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkuːməɹə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkʰʉːm(ə)ɹʷɐ]",
      "tags": [
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkʰʉːmɐɾɐ]",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kumara"
}