Moa - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: moaDinornis
A genus of extinct ostrichlike birds of gigantic size which formerly inhabited New Zealand See Moa...
Moa
Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis and other related genera of the suborder Dinornithes found in New Zealand They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans Some species were much larger than the ostrich...
VerbarRatitaelig
An order of birds in which the wings are small rudimentary or absent and the breastbone is destitute of a keel The ostrich emu moa and apteryx are examples...
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