elephant birds

A form of elephant bird — Any of the very large extinct flightless birds that make up the genera Aepyornis and Mullerornis within family Aepyornithidae, and lived in Madagascar until the 17th or 18th century; especially †Aepyornis maximus.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of elephant bird
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