mamo

plural mamos

1. Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.

   The plaintive whistle of the Hawai‘i mamo, a shy bird then found only on Hawai‘i Island, was heard only rarely by the mid-1880s, as cattle ranching and plantations altered the forest canopies where this nectar-loving finch once thrived.

   2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 76

   1 more example

   In 1907, when a well-known collector named Alanson Bryan realised that he had shot the last three specimens of black mamos, a species of forest bird that had only been discovered the previous decade, he noted that the news filled him with ‘joy’.

   2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 421

plural Mamos

1. A surname.