Meaning of mamo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.

Examples

“In 1907, when a well-known collector named Alanson Bryan realised that he had shot the last three specimens of black mamos, a species of forest bird that had only been discovered the previous decade, he noted that the news filled him with ‘joy’.”

“The plaintive whistle of the Hawai‘i mamo, a shy bird then found only on Hawai‘i Island, was heard only rarely by the mid-1880s, as cattle ranching and plantations altered the forest canopies where this nectar-loving finch once thrived.”

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