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Hawaiian bird
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moho
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n. The North Island takahē, an extinct rail of New Zealand.
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__NOTOC__ Moho was a genus of extinct birds in the Hawaiian bird family, Mohoidae , that were endemic to the Hawaiian Islands . Members of the genus are known as ōō in the Hawaiian language . Their plumage was generally striking glossy black; some species ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moho \Mo"ho\, n. [Short for Mohorovicic discontinuity, from Andrija Mohorovi[ccaron]i[cacute], a Yugoslavian geologist.] (Geol.) The boundary between the earth's crust and the semiliquid mantle beneath. It varies in depth from 3 miles beneath the surface ...
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The Moho discontinuity, that sharp line where the crust met the mantle, seemed to lie from ten to forty miles below sea level.
Since no one had ever been able to get magma from the Moho, although both Americans and Russians had tried during the Cold War, Perry decided to go back and drill into the mountain in hopes that Benthic Marine might be the first organization to sample the molten material.
Way down in the moho, five hundred-year-old fingernails began tearing painfully free.