Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An improper form of
Æpyornis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the gigantic ostrichlike birds of the genus Æpiornis, only recently extinct. Its remains have been found in Madagascar.
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Examples
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These great birds, together with others, such as the epiornis and palapteryx, have disappeared, not through the ordinary course of nature, but by the hand of man.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille
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One such reason is the way in which struthious birds are, or have been, distributed around the antarctic region: as the ostrich in Africa, the rhea in South America, the emeu in Australia, the apteryx, dinornis, &c. in New Zealand, the epiornis in Madagascar.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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