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mamo

mamo

See also: mamó

English

Noun

mamo (plural mamos)

  1. Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.
    • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 421:
      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’.
    • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 76:
      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.

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin mamma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmamo/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧mo

Noun

mamo (accusative singular mamon, plural mamoj, accusative plural mamojn)

  1. (anatomy) breast (female)

Derived terms


Galician

Verb

mamo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mamar

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto mamo.

Noun

mamo (plural mami)

  1. (anatomy) breast

Derived terms


Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmãmɔ]

Noun

mamo

  1. vocative singular of mama

Portuguese

Verb

mamo

  1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of mamar

Spanish

Verb

mamo

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of mamar.