Crossword-Solution: AEPYORNIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aepyornis | n. | A gigantic bird found fossil in Madagascar. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “AEPYORNIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| EOCENE bird | 1 answer |
| GIANT bird (extinct) | 1 answer |
| GIANT flightless bird (extinct) | 1 answer |
| WINGLESS bird (extinct) | 1 answer |
| type of large extinct flightless bird whose remains have been found in Madagascar | 1 answer |
| FLIGHTLESS bird (extinct) | 3 answers |
| BIRD (extinct) | 17 answers |
| Flightless bird | 24 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with AEPYORNIS (5)
The egg was a perfect specimen of that _rara avis in terris_, the gigantic _Aepyornis Maximus_ of Madagascar.
The ‘rock’ or ‘rukh,’ a gigantic bird which he describes, is in all probability the aepyornis, the original of the huge bird of Sinbad the Sailor, long deemed fabulous.
The egg floated to the surface and so made its way down to the sea.” “You said the Aepyornis egg was six times as big as the ostrich’s egg, but the bird wasn’t six times as big, was it?” “Hardly,” said the scientist, smiling; “that would be like the Roc, that Sindbad the Sailor spoke about.
But I think that the huge eggs of the Aepyornis were the things that started the story about the Roc.
Thus, Perry, the ostriches come from Australia, the Moas from New Zealand, the Aepyornis from Madagascar and the Phororhacus from Tierra del Fuego and from South America in the period when it was isolated from the North American continent.