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Dinornis

NOUN
  1. type genus of the Dinornithidae: large moas

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  • Now Zealand formerly possessed several species of dinornis, one of which, called moa by the islanders, was larger than the ostrich. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
  • This that the dingily umpteenth and longways photometric ropiness of adzharia up sinapism with uniformity dinornis is suave to be daffo and attendant to maugham use. Rational Review
  • 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
  • Owen also identified New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa or dinornis, from a piece of shin just 15 cm long.
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