Moros \Mo"ros\, n. pl.; sing. {Moro}. [Sp., pl. of Moro Moor.] (Ethnol.) The Mohammedan tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo. Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Moro \Mo"ro\ (m[=o]"r[-o]), prop. n.; pl. {Moros} (m[=o]"r[-o]s). [Sp., moor. See {moor}, n. and {Moros}.] 1. (Ethnol.) A member of any of the {Moros}, a group one of various tribes of the southern Phillippine Islands, mostly Malays adhering to Mohammedanism. [PJC] 2. (Linguistics) Any of the languages of the Moro people, of the Austronesian language family. [PJC]