apteryx
Kelime Anlamı :

1. apteriks.
Tanımlar :
1. see kiwi.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. A genus of new Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. it is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. five species are known.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. A genus of ratite birds, constituting the family Apterygidœ.
2. [lowercase] A bird of this genus; a kiwi (which see).
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. nocturnal flightless bird of new Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes
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