Hypertext Webster Gateway: "apteryx"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Apteryx \Ap"te*ryx\, n. [Gr. 'a priv. + pte`ryx wing. Cf.
{Aptera}.] (Zo["o]l.)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
apteryx
n : nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck
and stout legs; only surviving representative of the
order Apterygiformes [syn: {kiwi}]
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