Noun:

டோடோ,

dodo's Usage Examples:

Temminck, who had never seen a specimen, had assorted it with the dodo in an order to which he applied the name of Inertes (Man.

Mauritius had the dodo, Lophopsittacus and Aphanapteryx.

Didus, dodo, Mauritius.

Zealand parrot, Stringops, less in various flightless rails, in the dodo and solitaire.

In common with the other Mascarene islands, it was the home of the dodo (Didus ineptus); there were also A phanapteryx, a species of rail, and a shortwinged heron (Ardea megacephala), which probably seldom flew.

As Oreodon is, however, antedated by Merycoidodon, the latter name is properly entitled to stand, in which case the family should be called Agriochoeridae.

The family ranges in North America from the Upper Eocene to the Lower Miocene, but Oreodon (or Merycoidodon), which is typified by an animal of the size of a sheep, is Oligocene.

Of the extremely limited Samoan fauna, consisting mainly of an indigenous rat, four species of snakes and a few birds, the most interesting member is the Didunculus strigirostris, a ground pigeon of iridescent greenish-black and bright chestnut plumage, which forms a link between the extinct dodo and the living African Treroninae.

Synonyms:

fogy, fossil, oldster, golden ager, senior citizen, fogey, old person,

Antonyms:

juvenile,