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moa-nalo

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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  • 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.

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