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Definition of Kakapos
1. kakapo [n] - See also: kakapo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kakapos
Literary usage of Kakapos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wanderings with the Maori Prophets, Te Whiti & Tohu: Being Reminiscences of by John P. Ward (1883)
"Under his tent were found the remains of a few kakapos, not decomposed, though
some two or three weeks old. We searched around the precincts of the camp ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"Nearly all the adult kakapos which I skinned, were exceedingly fat, having a
thick layer of oily fat or blubber on the breast, which it was very difficult ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... containing only the remarkable nocturnal and terrestrial owl-parrot or kakapos
of New Zealand, ..."
4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... containing only the remarkable nocturnal and terrestrial owl-parrot or kakapos
of New Zealand, ..."
5. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1854)
"... now a race of wild dogs said to have overrun all the northern part of this
shore, and to have almost extirpated the kakapos wherever they have reached. ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... as I disks of the owl-parrots or kakapos sexes are usually much alike. its are
forest-birds, although a few trial habits and are styled ground- a few ..."
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