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ELEPHANT BIRD

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Dictionary entry overview: What does elephant bird mean?

• ELEPHANT BIRD (noun)
The noun ELEPHANT BIRD has 1 sense:

1. huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar

Familiarity information: ELEPHANT BIRD used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ELEPHANT BIRD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

aepyornis; elephant bird

Hypernyms ("elephant bird" 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 ("elephant bird" is a member of...):

genus Aepyornis (type genus of the Aepyornidae: elephant birds)

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