Crossword clues for moas
moas
- Ostrich relatives
- Bygone big birds
- Large birds
- Some extinct birds
- Extinct ostrichlike birds
- Extinct kiwi relatives
- New Zealand ratites
- They're extinct
- They're extinct as the dodoes
- Struthious birds
- Extinct ostrich relatives
- Extinct birds
- Extinct big birds
- Cousins of the ostrich
- Bygone flock of New Zealand
- Big birds in the bush, once
- Extinct birds of New Zealand
- Extinct New Zealanders
- Extinct relatives of ostriches
- Old New Zealand natives
- Extinct emu-like birds
- Flightless birds of yore
- Extinct New Zealand birds
- Extinct flightless birds
- Bygone birds
- Ostriches' relatives
- Extinct N.Z. birds
- Moment when these birds became extinct
- Birds making sad noises, any number gone
- Flightless birds
- Ostrichlike birds
Wiktionary
n. (plural of moa English)
Wikipedia
MOAS may refer to:
- Migrant Offshore Aid Station, a humanitarian search and rescue operation assisting vessels in distress in the central Mediterranean Sea
- Modified Overt Aggression Scale, a self-report inventory designed to measure aggressive behavior in youth and adults
Usage examples of "moas".
These moas which Paganel was chasing, the contemporaries of the Megatherium and the Pterodactyles, must have been eighteen feet high.
After a few minutes of chase, these fleet-footed moas disappeared among the tall trees, and the sportsmen lost their powder and their pains.
In lieu of richly garbed horses and moas, dogs and rodent-hunting cats roamed the streets.
Giant oystercatchers the size of moas stalked the shallows, stabbing the sand with beaks like swords.
He quickly became a leading expert on all kinds of animals living and extinct—from platypuses, echidnas, and other newly discovered marsupials to the hapless dodo and the extinct giant birds called moas that had roamed New Zealand until eaten out of existence by the Maoris.
Varieties of creatures with vast striking beaks resembling the diatrymas of Earth's Eocene roamed it, and there were some introduced Earth birds, too: The "banana belt" of the northern coastal regions had a climate not unlike the south of New Zealand and there were a few ranches for reconstituted and slightly modified moas, strongly fenced in and over to protect them from the savage and powerful locals.
Only after the first Polynesian settlers had exterminated moas and decimated seal populations on New Zealand, and exterminated or decimated seabirds and land birds on other Polynesian islands, did they intensify their food production.
She sees ground sloths, great auks, quaggas, moas, heath hens, Javan rhinos, giant armadillos, and many other rarities.
Many people believed that the avatars of the Preservers, which the heretics had silenced in every shrine in the temples of the civilized lands of the nearside shore, sometimes still appeared in these remote shrines when no one was watching, or that they appeared before secret congregations of moas, red foxes and ground sloths.