Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The Mohorovičić discontinuity.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A short-winged, shorttailed rail, Pennula ecaudata, peculiar to Hawaii.
  • noun A genus of meliphagine birds peculiar to the Sandwich Islands, named by Lesson in 1831.
  • noun [lowercase] Any bird of this genus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Geol.) The boundary between the earth's crust and the semiliquid mantle beneath. It varies in depth from 3 miles beneath the surface at certain points in the ocean to over 25 miles under certain parts of continents.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight. See notornis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun geology The Mohorovičić discontinuity.
  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Mohoidae — the oos.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle

Etymologies

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Shortened from Mohorovičić discontinuity.

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