Meaning of moa-nalo | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“1996, Amoco Oil Company, Sixth North American Paleontological Convention: Abstracts of Papers, page 194, We obtained a collection of coprolites from Thambetochen chauliodous, one of four species of flightless Hawaiian waterfowl known collectively as moa-nalos.”

“Moa-nalos did not occur⟳ on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose.”

“The moa-nalos are a clade of ducks known from subfossils on the main Hawaiian islands.”

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