| 单词 | moa stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoa stone moa stone n. any of a number of small rounded stones found in a group, believed by some to be the remains of the gizzard of a moa; usually in plural. ΚΠ 1856 T. Tancred Notes Nat. Hist. Province Canterbury 13 There are found on parts of the plains little heaps of rounded agate or quartz pebbles..which are popularly called ‘moa stones’, and are supposed to be the contents of the gizzards of those birds which have died at the places where these heaps are found. 1893 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1892 25 27 To aid in the digestion of this food, the moa..swallowed little pebbles, which, rounded & polished by the friction of their stomach, assumed a peculiar form, and are called to this day ‘moa-stones’ by the natives, who are familiar with them. 1926 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. 8 65 [Australian] settlers called them [sc. australites] ‘gum-stones’, as we in New Zealand say ‘moa-stones’. 1985 E. J. Studholme Coldstream xiii These bones were not, as one would expect them to be, near the moa stones, but scattered generally over the run. < as lemmas |
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