Sentence examples for moa from inspiring English sources
noun
A very large, extinct, flightless bird of the family Dinornithidae that was native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world.
The Ascension frigate bird, endemic to the island, had been driven to nesting on an offshore rock the cats could not get to.Special report All creatures great and small Dead as the moa What's the use?
Some campaigners are therefore trying to emulate the earlier demand-reduction campaign.Special report All creatures great and small Dead as the moa What's the use?
Amsterdam's wild side Where eagles dare Hearts and minds The long view Trees of knowledge Averting the sixth extinction Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsThe bird that Owen had identified was the moa (pictured with him above), a sort of supersized ostrich.
Middens of enormous bones were discovered, some so large that their contents were ground up and used as fertiliser.Special report All creatures great and small Dead as the moa What's the use?
Its origins lie in the three great intellectual movements of recent times.Special report All creatures great and small Dead as the moa What's the use?
Paragominas was known to be the front line of the fight against deforestation, so the burning trucks were all over the nation's television screens.Special report All creatures great and small Dead as the moa What's the use?
On zoogeographic grounds, it is likely that the isolated kiwi-moa, elephant bird, and emu-cassowary lines arose independently from each other and from ratites on the other continents.
Floyd can speak only of Samoa, correcting his aunt's pronunciation of the word to "Sah-moa," and referring to siblings that Freddy knows do not exist.
The Saint Paul River enters the Atlantic at Monrovia, in Liberia, and the Moa River has its mouth at Sulima, in Sierra Leone.
Lisa records how frequently the female nestles in the nest cup, a precursor to egg laying, and as we watch, a female named Moa Nui sits quietly as her mate perches in the background.
They extended their lead 10 minutes later, Sam Moa barrelling his way over on the ground where he used to play his club rugby with Hull.
