upland moa

noun

upland moa

noun
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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