elephant bird in English

noun
1
a heavily built, giant flightless bird, found in Madagascar until it was exterminated in about ad 1000. The eggs, which are still found occasionally, are the largest known.
Fossils from Madagascar tell us that a gigantic bird, the elephant bird Aepyornis maximus, lived there, perhaps until as late as the seventeenth century, although more probably around 1000 AD.
noun
    aepyornis

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1. Aepyornis is an Elephant bird, one of three genera of ratite birds endemic to Madagascar until their extinction about 1000 A.D

2. The eggs of the Aepyornis, also known as the elephant bird, were a highly valuable food source for Madagascar’s human settlers.With a volume roughly equal to …

3. The Aepyornis, sometimes referred to by its common name, the elephant bird, is a genus with four generally accepted species today, although by the end of …

4. The Aepyornis or otherwise known as the the ‘elephant bird’ is a species of giant flightless bird that is believed to have become extinct around the 17th century

5. The imagery on this page is the basis for a paper entitled Osteological description of an embryonic skeleton of the extinct elephant bird, Aepyornis (Palaeognathae: Ratitae), by A.M

6. Aepyornis: 1 n huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar Synonyms: elephant bird Type of: 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