Definition of Dinornithiformes

1. Noun. A ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand.

Exact synonyms: Order Dinornithiformes
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Aves, Class Aves
Member holonyms: Dinornithidae, Family Dinornithidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dinornithiformes

Dimorphotheca
Din Land
Dina
Dinah
Dinajpur District
Dinarization
Dindymene
Dinesen
Dingle
Dinka
Dino Paul Crocetti
Dinocerata
Dinoflagellata
Dinornis giganteus
Dinornithidae
Dinornithiformes
Diocletian
Dioctophyma
Dioctophyma renale
Diodon holocanthus
Diodon hystrix
Diodontidae
Diodora apertura
Diogenean
Diogenes
Diogenes cup
Diomedea exulans
Diomedea nigripes
Diomedeidae
Diomedes

Literary usage of Dinornithiformes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1897)
"... notes on the skull, sternum, and shoulder-girdle ; CW ANDREWS, Ibis, 1896, pp. 376-389, pis. viii & ix. Order dinornithiformes. ..."

2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"dinornithiformes. — MOAS (Fig. 484).-—-The moas have probably become extinct within the past five hundred years. The remains of these peculiar birds have ..."

3. Вестник зоологии. Отдельний выпуск by НАН Украины, Instytut zoolohiï (Akademii︠a︡ nauk Ukraïnsʹkoï RSR), Instytut zoolohiï im. I.I. Shmalʹhauzena (1893)
"Order dinornithiformes. FIELD, HC Discoveries of Moa Bones. Tr. NZ Inst, xxiv, pp. 558- 561. ... dinornithiformes ..."

4. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"... The Moas (dinornithiformes).—When British explorers first occupied New Zealand nearly seventy years ago the skeletons of gigantic wingless birds were ..."

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