Definition of Dinornithidae

1. Noun. Moas.

Exact synonyms: Family Dinornithidae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Dinornithiformes, Order Dinornithiformes
Member holonyms: Dinornis, Genus Dinornis, Moa, Genus Anomalopteryx

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dinornithidae

Dimocarpus longan
Dimorphotheca
Din Land
Dina
Dinah
Dinajpur District
Dinarization
Dindymene
Dinesen
Dingle
Dinka
Dino Paul Crocetti
Dinocerata
Dinoflagellata
Dinornis giganteus
Dinornithidae
Dinornithiformes
Diocletian
Dioctophyma
Dioctophyma renale
Diodon holocanthus
Diodon hystrix
Diodontidae
Diodora apertura
Diogenean
Diogenes
Diogenes cup
Diomedea exulans
Diomedea nigripes
Diomedeidae

Literary usage of Dinornithidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"... as indicated by its fossil remains, was by no means as big or as tall a bird as the larger species of the dinornithidae of New Zealand. ..."

2. A Text-book of Zoogeography by Frank Evers Beddard (1895)
"They approximate however to the dinornithidae in a number of characters which together are of some importance ; thus there is with them as in the ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1894)
"The other group, the moas (dinornithidae'), are now quite extinct, but as remains of their skin and feathers have been found in some of the caves of the ..."

4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"... and some five-and-twenty species of Moas (dinornithidae). Great Britain has no Parrots; New Zealand has two species of Nestor, seven Parrakeets of the ..."

5. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"22668 Hamilton, A. Sccond Supplement to the " Materials " for Bibliography of the dinornithidae. Wellington, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst., 86, 1904, (471- 473). ..."

6. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"... but more often considered as families, super-families, or sub-orders. The extinct Moas forming the family dinornithidae form a distinct division, ..."

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