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moa-nalo

moa-nalo noun: any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the late Pleistocene until sometime before 1778.

moa-nalo: any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the...
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Noun

moa-nalo (plural moa-nalos)

  1. Any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the late Pleistocene until sometime before 1778.
    • All of the raptors would have exploited rails, young ibises, and perhaps young moa-nalos, although the eagle was the only one capable of taking adult ibises or moa-nalos.1994, Storrs L. Olson, Helen F. James, “Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriforms”, in E. Alison Kay, editor, A Natural History of the...
    • We obtained a collection of coprolites from Thambetochen chauliodous, one of four species of flightless Hawaiian waterfowl known collectively as moa-nalos.1996, Amoco Oil Company, Sixth North American Paleontological Convention: Abstracts of Papers, page 194

Examples of moa-nalo in a sentence

  • Moa-nalos did not occur on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose.2006, Guy A. Baldassarre, Eric G. Bolen, Waterfowl Ecology and Management, 2nd edition, page 41:
  • The moa-nalos are a clade of ducks known from subfossils on the main Hawaiian islands.2012, Michael Heads, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics, page 328:

Forms of moa-nalo

pluralmoa-nalos

Words formed from moa-nalo

  • turtle-jawed moa-nalo
  • small-billed moa-nalo
  • O'ahu moa-nalo
  • Maui Nui large-billed moa-nalo

Questions about moa-nalo

What does moa-nalo mean?
Moa-nalo means any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the late Pleistocene until sometime before 1778.
How do you use moa-nalo in a sentence?
Moa-nalos did not occur on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose.
What part of speech is moa-nalo?
Moa-nalo is a noun.
What is the plural of moa-nalo?
The plural of moa-nalo is moa-nalos.

Words near moa-nalo in the dictionary

  1. moa
  2. moa bed
  3. moa beds
  4. moa stone
  5. moa stones
  6. moa-nalo
  7. moa-nalos
  8. moab
  9. moabi
  10. moabis
  11. Moabite

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