moa-nalos

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...