How to Use moa in a Sentence

moa

noun

• Certainly, the moa were, which would be enough to doom the predator.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• The smallest, the little bush moa, stood a little over four feet tall.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
• There were 11 or so species of moa alive in the past, ranging from hefty to alarmingly large.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2012
• Rather than cows or antelopes, there was a family of flightless birds known as moa.
  — Boyce Upholt, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2022
• Rather than cows or antelopes, there was a family of flightless birds known as moa.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• Extinct flightless birds—the moa of New Zealand and the dodo—were favorites, along with the Yangtze River dolphin.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• When Western scientists first encountered moa, the idea that species could go extinct was just a few decades old.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• When Western scientists first encountered moa, the idea that species could go extinct was just a few decades old.
  — Boyce Upholt, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2022
• These include the world's biggest parrot, a giant eagle, a giant burrowing bat, and the moa, a kind of large flightless bird.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 14 Aug. 2019
• These include the world’s biggest parrot, a giant eagle, a giant burrowing bat, and the moa, a kind of large flightless bird.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2019
• Some important answers lie in something the moa left behind: ancient bird poop.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018
• New Zealand is believed to have been the site of many gigantic birds that later became extinct, including the world’s largest parrot, a giant eagle and an emu-like bird called the moa.
  — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
• Now, the country’s roster of extinct bulky birds—which includes the massive moa and the huge Haast’s eagle—has grown even larger, with the discovery of a Paleocene-era penguin that stood as tall as a human.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2019
• Not only moa dominated avifaunas, but giant geese and adzebills shared the forest floor, while a giant eagle ruled the skies.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
• Several others were classified by comparing, say, a femur to a toe, and by borrowing, inexactly, a system developed to assess New Zealand’s moa, another famous extinct bunch of ratites (generally large, flightless birds).
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2018
• Educated interpretation Although the coprolites yielded lots of information on the ecosystems surrounding the moa, questions remain.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018

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