moho

plural mohos

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

plural mohos

1. Synonym of oo.

   Synonyms: oo

plural mohos

1. informalrareA motor home.

1. abbreviationclippinggeographyClipping of Mohorovičić discontinuity.

1. alternativeAlternative form of Mohe.

   The most important gold-mine in Manchuria is the Moho mine, on the upper Amur.

   1903 Autumn, B.L. Putnam Weale (pseudonymous author), Manchu and Muscovite: Being Letters from Manchuria Written during the Autumn of 1903, London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. / New York: The Macmillan Company (1904), chapter ix: “Mining and Lumbering in Manchuria”, pages 151–152

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   Heilungkiang Province.[…] The Chinese have colonised a considerable area about Hulan, reaching to 100 miles north of the Sungari. Here are several prosperous towns, with an export trade similar to that on the south bank. Beyond this area the government is still purely Manchu. The capital is Tsitsihar or Pukwei, around which a settled population is found. Thence to the Amur are a few garrison towns, and in the extreme north are the gold mines of Moho.

   1907, James W. Inglis, “Manchuria”, in Marshall Broomhall, editor, The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey, →OCLC, pages 310-311

   First, a line N. N. E. will run parallel to the Khingan Range to Khailar, and thence to Moho, the gold district on the right hank of the Amur River. This line is about eight hundred m iles in length.

   1920, Sun Yat-sen, The International Development of China, Shanghai: Commercial Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 6

   The distance from north to south is about 5,500 kilometres, extending over 49 degrees in latitude from the middle of the Heilungkiang River around Moho to the neighbourhood of the Tsengmu Reef at latitude 4° N.

   A Concise Geography of China

   1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], “Land and People”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, pages 3–4