Apteryx

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun 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.

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apteryx
n. [Grk. 'a privative and pterux, a wing.] A New Zealand bird about the size ofa domestic fowl, wit...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris