Definition of "dronte" []

• The dodo. (noun)

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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."