apteryx
English Thesaurus
1. nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | flightless bird, ratite, ratite bird, |
| definition | : | flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus apteryx, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Apterygidae: kiwis (noun.animal) |
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