Moho

See also: moho and mohó

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from Hawaiian ʻōʻō, onomatopoeic from its call, via confusion of its name with the moho (“rail”). Coined by French naturalist and ornithologist René Primevère Lesson in 1830

Proper noun

†Moho m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Mohoidae – oos, of Hawaii, now extinct.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Moho nobilis - type species

References

• Moho (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Moho on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Moho on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊhəʊ

Proper noun

Moho

1. (geology) Short for Mohorovičić discontinuity.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Moho

1. Alternative form of Mohe
   • 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:

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

   • 1907, James W. Inglis, “Manchuria”, in Marshall Broomhall, editor, The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey‎^[1], →OCLC, pages 310-311:

     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.

   • 1920, Sun Yat-sen, The International Development of China‎^[2], Shanghai: Commercial Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 6:

     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.

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

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Moho.

Anagrams

• HOMO, homo, homo-

Spanish

Proper noun

Moho ?

1. A province of Puno, Peru