Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world. · An extremely tall individual.
Borrowed from Māori moa, from Proto-Polynesian *moa (“fowl”).
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