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nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes
Five species are known
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
{i} kiwi, flightless bird having no tail and very small wings (native to New Zealand)
It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country
genus apteryx
type genus of the Apterygidae: kiwis
apteryx