Meaning

3 senses
  1. The North Island takahē, an extinct rail of New Zealand.

  2. Synonym of oo.

  3. (informal, rare)A motor home.

More definitions
  • the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle

Origin

Borrowed from Māori moho. From Hawaiian ʻōʻō, onomatopoeic from its call, via confusion o

Borrowed from Māori moho.

From Hawaiian ʻōʻō, onomatopoeic from its call, via confusion of its name with the moho (“rail”).

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Forms

plural: mohos
Singularmoho
Pluralmohos

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle:Mohorovicic discontinuity

Word family

1 related words

See also

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