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Definition of "apteryx" []

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "apteryx" in a sentence
  • "There is the kiwi, or apteryx, which is about as large as a turkey, but only found on the"
  • "The remnants of these vanished birds in the form of subfossils ancient bones, not yet petrified and fossils suggest wide variation on the basic model: enormously tall moas of the genus Dinornis, smaller but thick-legged moas of the genus Pachyornis, medium-sized moas of the genus Bury apteryx, pygmy moas of the genus Anomalopteryx."
  • "The object that had come between him and the Gulf was a mounted man-or rather, the idiot-headed apteryx the man was sitting on."