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mamo
mamo
See also: mamó
English
Noun
mamo (plural mamos)
- 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’.
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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.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 421:
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmamo/
- Hyphenation: ma‧mo
Noun
mamo (accusative singular mamon, plural mamoj, accusative plural mamojn)
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