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n. Any of various flightless ostrichlike birds of the family Dinornithidae, native to New Zealand and extinct for over a century.

n. A very large, extinct, flightless bird of the family Dinornithidae that was native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world.

n. Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.

n. A gigantic extinct bird of the family Dinornithidæ. See cut under Dinornis.

n. extinct flightless bird of New Zealand

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