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moho

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Noun
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Mo=ho

CIDE DICTIONARY

mohon. [Native name.].
     A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight. See Notornis.  [1913 Webster]
mohon. [Short for Mohorovicic discontinuity, from Andrija Mohorovi, a Yugoslavian geologist.].
     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.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

moho, n. (pl. -os) Geol. a boundary of discontinuity separating the earth's crust and mantle.

Etymology
A. Mohorovicic, Yugoslav seismologist d. 1936

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