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Mo⋅ro

  [mawr-oh, mohr-oh]
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–noun, plural -ros, (especially collectively) -ro.
a member of any of the various tribes of Muslim Malays in the southern Philippines.
Origin:
< Sp < L Maurus Moor

Mo⋅ro

  [mawr-oh, mor-oh; It. maw-raw]
–noun
Al⋅do  [al-doh; It. ahl-daw] , 1916–78, Italian lawyer, author, and statesman: prime minister 1963–68, 1974–76.
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Mo·ro   (môr'ō, mōr'ō)   
n.   pl. Moro or Mo·ros

  1. A member of any of the predominantly Muslim Malay tribes of the southern Philippines.

  2. Any of the Austronesian languages of the Moro.


[Spanish, Moor, Muslim, Moro, from Latin Maurus, Moor; see Moor.]
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