Crossword-Solution: APTERYX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apteryx | n. | A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “APTERYX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Another name for kiwi | 1 answer |
| Kiwi genus | 1 answer |
| New Zealand bird, e.g. | 1 answer |
| FLIGHTLESS bird (genus) | 2 answers |
| New Zealand wingless bird | 2 answers |
| wingless bird New Zealand | 2 answers |
| wingless bird | 4 answers |
| Kiwi | 6 answers |
| Flightless bird | 24 answers |
| New Zealand bird | 29 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with APTERYX (5)
The principal groups are: Carinat‘, including all existing flying birds; Ratit‘, including the ostrich and allies, the apteryx, and the extinct moas; Odontornithes, or fossil birds with teeth.
The wing of the penguin is of high service, acting as a fin; it may, therefore, represent the nascent state of the wing: not that I believe this to be the case; it is more probably a reduced organ, modified for a new function: the wing of the Apteryx, on the other hand, is quite useless, and is truly rudimentary.
There is the kiwi, or apteryx, which is about as large as a turkey, but only found on the West Coast.
Thus we find in South America three birds which use their wings for other purposes besides flight; the penguin as fins, the steamer as paddles, and the ostrich as sails: and the Apteryx of New Zealand, as well as its gigantic extinct prototype the Deinornis, possess only rudimentary representatives of wings.
The casts of the footprints show that some of the fossil bipeds of the red sandstone of Connecticut had feet four times as large as the living ostrich, but scarcely, perhaps, larger than the Dinornis of New Zealand, a lost genus of feathered giants related to the Apteryx, of which there were many species which have left their bones and almost entire skeletons in the superficial alluvium of that island.
Quotes with APTERYX (2)
If about a dozen genera of birds had become extinct or were unknown, who would have ventured to have surmised that birds might have existed which used their wings solely as flappers, like the logger-headed duck (Micropterus of Eyton); as fins in the water and front legs on the land, like the penguin; as sails, like the ostrich; and functionally for no purpose, like the Apteryx. Yet the structure of each of these birds is good for it, under the conditions of life to which it i…
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2011–2016).