upland moa

noun

A large, extinct species of moa, Megalapteryx didinus.

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nounupland moa (plural upland moas)

plural upland moas

  1. A large, extinct species of moa, Megalapteryx didinus.

    The relatively small upland moa had the most wide-ranging taste; its coprolites show that it consumed a diversity of mosses, ferns, and fungi, as well as aquatic plants.

    2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian
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