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moha moha

moha moha noun: a type of sea creature reported seen by a Miss Lovell and others at Sandy Cape in South-East Queensland, Australia, on 8 June 1890. She described it as some 30 feet long with a turtle-like neck extending from a rounded body some 8 feet across, and a long fish-like tail.

Noun

moha moha (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural) A type of sea creature reported seen by a Miss Lovell and others at Sandy Cape in South-East Queensland, Australia, on 8 June 1890. She described it as some 30 feet long with a turtle-like neck extending from a rounded body some 8 feet across, and a long fish-like tail.
    • Native blacks call it 'Moka, moka' and say they like to eat it, and that it has legs and fingers.1891, S. Lovell, "Tempus omnia monstra", in Land and Water, London, 3 March 1891 (quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots, Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN, who was unable to obtain the original...
    • The blacks, who had not seen it the day I did, named it at once from my sketch, which must, therefore, be pretty accurate, and called it 'Moha, Moha', and laughed and said, 'Saucy Fellow, Meebee' – in English, 'dangerous turtle'.1891, S. Lovell, "Land and Water", 25 April 1891 (quoted by Malcolm Smith from Heuvelmans etc).

Synonyms of moha moha

Origin of moha moha

Miss Lovell's first report (quote below) spelt the creature moka moka, but in her second it was moha moha (also below).

Questions about moha moha

What does moha moha mean?
Moha moha means a type of sea creature reported seen by a Miss Lovell and others at Sandy Cape in South-East Queensland, Australia, on 8 June 1890. She described it as some 30 feet long with a turtle-like neck extending from a rounded body some 8 feet across, and a long fish-like tail.
What part of speech is moha moha?
Moha moha is a noun.

Words near moha moha in the dictionary

  1. moh
  2. moh tree
  3. moh trees
  4. Moh.
  5. moha
  6. moha moha
  7. Mohabir
  8. Mohabirs
  9. mohafa
  10. mohafas
  11. mohaffa

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