Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hunter of the moa: a poetical name applied, in the plural, to an extinct people, probably of Papuan relationship, supposed to have inhabited New Zealand before the advent of the Maoris.
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This association of Haast’s eagle with moa immediately led to suggestions that it was a moa-hunter, and had perhaps come to feed on moa that had become trapped in the mud of the swamps.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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