dronte (raphus cucullatus)

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dodo
{n} a fowl of the gallinaceous order
extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons
A ball that is balanced illegally
A large, flightless bird, Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius
Sacred Tree
A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt
disapproval If you refer to someone as a dodo, you think they are foolish or silly. Extinct flightless bird (Raphus cucullatus) of Mauritius, first seen by Portuguese sailors about 1507. Humans and the animals they introduced had exterminated the dodo by 1681. It weighed about 50 lbs (23 kg) and had blue-gray plumage, a big head, a 9-in. (23-cm) blackish bill with a reddish hooked tip, small useless wings, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly feathers high on its rear end. The Réunion solitaire (R. solitarius), also driven to extinction, may have been a white version of the dodo. Partial museum specimens and skeletons are all that remain of the dodo
It was related to the pigeons
A dodo was a very large bird that was unable to fly. Dodos are now extinct
amatory; loving (1 ) A descendant of Issachar (Judg 10: 1)
It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; called also dronte
A bowling ball over the legal weight or out of legal balance
A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius
extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons someone whose style is out of fashion
{i} any of several species of flightless birds that inhabited the islands off the southeastern coast of Africa (now extinct); stupid and graceless person
someone whose style is out of fashion