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AEPYORNIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aepyornis mean?
• AEPYORNIS (noun)
The noun AEPYORNIS has 1 sense:
1. huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar
Familiarity information: AEPYORNIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
aepyornis; elephant bird
Hypernyms ("aepyornis" is a kind of...):
flightless bird; ratite; ratite bird (flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds)
Holonyms ("aepyornis" is a member of...):
genus Aepyornis (type genus of the Aepyornidae: elephant birds)
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