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Definition of Dinornithidae
1. Noun. Moas.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Dinornithiformes, Order Dinornithiformes
Member holonyms: Dinornis, Genus Dinornis, Moa, Genus Anomalopteryx
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dinornithidae
Literary usage of Dinornithidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"... as indicated by its fossil remains, was by no means as big or as tall a bird
as the larger species of the Dinornithidae of New Zealand. ..."
2. A Text-book of Zoogeography by Frank Evers Beddard (1895)
"They approximate however to the Dinornithidae in a number of characters which
together are of some importance ; thus there is with them as in the ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1894)
"The other group, the moas (Dinornithidae'), are now quite extinct, but as remains
of their skin and feathers have been found in some of the caves of the ..."
4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"... and some five-and-twenty species of Moas (Dinornithidae). Great Britain has
no Parrots; New Zealand has two species of Nestor, seven Parrakeets of the ..."
5. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"22668 Hamilton, A. Sccond Supplement to the " Materials " for Bibliography of
the Dinornithidae. Wellington, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst., 86, 1904, (471- 473). ..."
6. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"... but more often considered as families, super-families, or sub-orders.
The extinct Moas forming the family Dinornithidae form a distinct division, ..."
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