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Definition of 'mamo'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus .
  • * 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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