Definition of moas Moas
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What does moas mean?
Wiktionary 
- moas (Noun)
Plural of moa.
Part of speech
π€- moas, noun, plural of moa.
WordNet
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| moa - extinct flightless bird of New Zealand | ||
| flightless bird, ratite, ratite bird flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds | ||
| dinornithidae, family dinornithidae moas | ||
| dinornis giganteus, giant moa the largest moa; about 12 feet high | ||
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Wiktionary
- moa (Noun)
A very large, extinct, flightless bird of the family Dinornithidae that was native to New Zealand ; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary π
- moa (n.)
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.
Wikipedia 
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Moas were the biggest birds ever known. The biggest ones grew up to 3.6 meters (12 feet) tall, and weighed as much as 250 kilograms (550 pounds).
All moas lived in New Zealand. Many different kinds of these birds lived in that place until about 100 or 200 years after the first people came there (the MΔori), in about 1300. All moas were dead, it is thought, by about 1500. They had been eaten.
There are stories of moas still alive, but men of science do not say this.
Part of speech
π€- moa, noun, singular of moas.
