Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the dodo.
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- noun (Zoöl.) The dodo.
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- noun archaic The
dodo .
Etymologies
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French
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Examples
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In New Holland, fossil remains of the kangaroo have been found, and in New Zealand the semi-foxxilized bones of an enormous bird, resembling the ostrich, the dinornis of Owen, * which is nearly allied to the present spteryx, and but little so to the recently extinct dronte (dodo) of the island of Rodriguez.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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