Crossword-Solution: DODOS 5 letters, 99 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Dim bulbs, so to speak 1 answer
Long-extinct birds 1 answer
Geniuses they're not 1 answer
Former birds only found on Mauritius 1 answer
Extinct flock 1 answer
Extinct birds of Mauritius 1 answer
Extinct Mauritius birds 1 answer
Extinct Mauritian birds 1 answer
Einsteins they aren't 1 answer
Early victims of human-induced extinction 1 answer
Dull-witted sorts 1 answer
Long-extinct flightless birds 1 answer
Defunct birds 1 answer
Critters extinct since 1681 1 answer
Clumsy extinct birds 1 answer
Clumsy birds of yore 1 answer
Bygone birds of Mauritius 1 answer
Bygone Mauritian avifauna 1 answer
Brainless bunch 1 answer
Blockheads or some extinct birds 1 answer
Birds that didn't know to fear humans 1 answer
Birds no more 1 answer
Residents of Mauritius, once 1 answer
Wiped-out avians 1 answer
Vanished creatures 1 answer
Utter fools 1 answer
Too-trusting birds 1 answer
They're unapt to adapt 1 answer
Slow-witted sorts 1 answer
Slow-witted ones 1 answer
Simpletons: colloq. 1 answer
Rockheads 1 answer
Residents of Mauritius, pre-1662 1 answer
Bygone Mauritius dwellers 1 answer
Real gone birds 1 answer
Persons with old-fashioned ideas: Colloq. 1 answer
Peabrains 1 answer
Onetime sights on Mauritius 1 answer
Old fogies: Colloq. 1 answer
Old fogeys 1 answer
Not the brightest birds 1 answer
Mauritian has-beens 1 answer
Lost birds of Mauritius 1 answer
Long-gone critters 1 answer
Birds last seen in 1681 1 answer
Birds extinct since 1681 1 answer
Birds extinct by 1681 1 answer
Birds clubbed to extinction 1 answer
Birds last seen in the 17th century 1 answer
Birdbrains, fittingly 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
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greedy person
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Sentences with DODOS (5)

Immense tortoises, delicious fish, thousands of turtledoves, and dodos _à discrétion_, regaled the half-starved and scurvy-stricken seamen.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Various 2006
With our own experience--and that is somewhat extensive--of sailors in general, and Dutch ones in particular, we must infer that these dodos were very, very fat, indeed.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Various 2006
With regard to the modern maiden--the _Dodos_ and their kindred swains--it would be infinitely preferable that they did not degrade the sanctity of a natural sacrament by profanely prostituting it to their temporal and social convenience.
Morality as a Religion W. R. Washington Sullivan 2007
From what we know of the general similarity of Miocene birds to living genera and families, it seems clear that the origin of so remarkable a type as the dodos must date back to early Tertiary times.
Island Life Alfred Russel Wallace 2010
Cauche says he saw there birds bigger than swans, which he describes so as to leave no doubt of his meaning dodos; but perhaps the most important facts (if they be facts) that he relates are that they had a cry like a gosling ("il a un cry comme l'oison"), and that they laid a single white egg ("gros comme un pain d'un sol") on a mass of grass in the forests.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 Various 2010

Quotes with DODOS (2)

Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.
H.P. Lovecraft
While a number of people have pointed out the various costs and drawbacks of sentience, few if any have taken the next step and wondered out loud if the whole damn thing isn't more trouble than it's worth. Of course it is, people assume; otherwise natural selection would have weeded it out long ago. And they're probably right. I hope they are. "Blindsight" is a thought experiment, a game of "Just suppose" and "What if". Nothing more. On the other hand, the dodos and the Stell…
Peter Watts Blindsight
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 171 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).