Definition of apteryxes Apteryxes
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What does apteryxes mean?
Part of speech
🔤- apteryxes, noun, plural of apteryx.
WordNet
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| apteryx - nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes | ||
| kiwi | ||
| 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 | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- apteryx (n.)
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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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apteryx
ap′tėr-iks, n. a bird found in New Zealand, wingless and tailless, reddish-brown, about the size of a large hen. [Gr. a, neg., pteryx, wing.]
Part of speech
🔤- apteryx, noun, singular of apteryxes.
