elephant bird
Noun
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Noun
elephant bird (plural elephant birds)
- Any of the very large extinct flightless birds that make up the genera Aepyornis and Mullerornis within family Aepyornithidae, and lived in Madagascar until the 17th or 18th century; especially Aepyornis maximus.
- 2013, Roger Safford, Frank Hawkins, The Birds of Africa, Volume VIII: The Malagasy Region, page 107 ↗,
- All[of order Struthioniformes] except tinamous are flightless; they include the largest birds ever known (moas and elephant birds) and the largest living bird (Ostrich).
- 2013, Roger Safford, Frank Hawkins, The Birds of Africa, Volume VIII: The Malagasy Region, page 107 ↗,
- French: oiseau-éléphant
- German: Elefantenvogel
- Spanish: ave elefante
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