Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Mohorovičić discontinuity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short-winged, shorttailed rail, Pennula ecaudata, peculiar to Hawaii.
- noun A genus of meliphagine birds peculiar to the Sandwich Islands, named by Lesson in 1831.
- noun [lowercase] Any bird of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A gallinule (
Notornis Mantelli ) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight. Seenotornis . - noun (Geol.) The boundary between the earth's crust and the semiliquid mantle beneath. It varies in depth from 3 miles beneath the surface at certain points in the ocean to over 25 miles under certain parts of continents.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Mohoidae — theoos . - proper noun geology The
Mohorovičić discontinuity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle
Etymologies
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Examples
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For those who lived through apartheid, like this grandmother who asked to be called Moho (ph), the promotion of African traditions is uplifting.
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Moho, that is ignorance and folly -- when any or all of these arise in the hearts of men, is the result beneficial or the reverse? '
The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890
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During flat subduction, the relatively lowdensity antigorite ‘floats’ and is underplated to the base of the continental crust at the Moho geophysical interface.
At it Again Silver Fox 2008
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The map includes crustal thickness and Moho topography views.
Martian Map 2008
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The map includes crustal thickness and Moho topography views.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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The base of the Serpentosphere coincides with the gravity and high-velocity seismically defined transition beneath both continents and ocean basins commonly referred to as the Moho.
At it Again Silver Fox 2008
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A star-studded gala affair in the newer than brand new Moho Live venue on Oldham Street.
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A star-studded gala affair in the newer than brand new Moho Live venue on Oldham Street.
Archive 2007-08-19 2007
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Henshaw tells us that the _oo_ (_Moho nobilis_) has "a long shaking note with ventriloquial powers."
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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The invaders were the Toi, originally called Sushen or Moho, under the former of which names they make their appearance in Japanese history in the middle of the sixth century.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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