mamo
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/ˈmeɪməʊ/(UK)
Definition of mamo
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.
“In 1907, when a well-known collector named Alanson Bryan realised that he had shot the last three specimens of black mamos, a species of forest bird that had only been discovered the previous decade, he noted that the news filled him with ‘joy’.”
“The plaintive whistle of the Hawai‘i mamo, a shy bird then found only on Hawai‘i Island, was heard only rarely by the mid-1880s, as cattle ranching and plantations altered the forest canopies where this nectar-loving finch once thrived.”
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noun
-
Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.
“In 1907, when a well-known collector named Alanson Bryan realised that he had shot the last three specimens of black mamos, a species of forest bird that had only been discovered the previous decade, he noted that the news filled him with ‘joy’.”
“The plaintive whistle of the Hawai‘i mamo, a shy bird then found only on Hawai‘i Island, was heard only rarely by the mid-1880s, as cattle ranching and plantations altered the forest canopies where this nectar-loving finch once thrived.”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hawaiian mamo.
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