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Definition of Dinornithiformes
1. Noun. A ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Aves, Class Aves
Member holonyms: Dinornithidae, Family Dinornithidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dinornithiformes
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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