Crossword clues for aepyornis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
aepyornis \aepyornis\, ||AEpyornis \[AE]`py*or"nis\, n. [Gr. ? high + ? bird.] A gigantic (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird, of which fossils were found in Madagascar.
Syn: elephant bird
WordNet
n. huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar [syn: elephant bird]
Wikipedia
Aepyornis is a genus of aepyornithid, one of two genera of ratite birds endemic to Madagascar known as elephant birds. The species A. maximus weighed up to , and was the world's largest bird until its extinction, about 1000 years ago.
Usage examples of "aepyornis".
When the last grizzly bear died recently, the way was opened for the griffins—just as the death of the last aepyornis brought in the yeti, the dodo the Loch Ness creature, the passenger pigeon the sasquatch, the blue whale the kraken, the American eagle the cockatrice—"