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Meaning Of 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.