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Didus ineptus
Dodo Do"do, n.; pl. Dodoes. [Said to be fr. Pg. doudo silly, foolish (cf. Booby); this is fr. Prov. E. dold, the same word as E. dolt.] (Zo["o]l.) A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.

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- Rodrigues solitaire and the Réunion solitaire, as Didus solitarius and Raphus solitarius, respectively (Didus and Raphus being names for the dodo genus used...
- hdl:10088/2005. Schlegel, H. (1854). "Ook een Woordje over den Dodo (Didus ineptus) en zijne Verwanten". Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie...
- Pezophaps solitarius, Didus ineptus, and the possible species Didus borbonicus. Today, only two raphine species are known, with Didus ineptus becoming a junior...
- the Herbert sketch showed a dodo from Rodrigues, and named them Didus broecki and Didus herberti in 1854. In 1968, the Austrian naturalist Georg Ritter...
- Raphus cucullatus (Mauritius, Mascarenes, late 17th century) Called Didus ineptus by Linnaeus. A metre-high flightless bird found on Mauritius. Its forest...
- the shape and size of the tarsometatarsus to that of the dodo (then Didus ineptus). It was the smallest known species of moa, only slightly taller than...
- 1474-919X.1866.tb06084.x. Owen, R. (1869). "On the osteology of the dodo (Didus ineptus Linń.)". Transactions of the Zoological Society. 6: 49–86. Newton, E...
- Desolation (1922) Destruction (C****IV. La Destruction) Dialogue (1943) Didus ineptus (1958) Disillusionment (1958) Dissidence (29 Nov 1923) Dissonance (15...
- 31 July 2014. Schlegel, H. (1854), "Ook een Woordje over den Dodo (Didus ineptus) en zijne Verwanten", Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie...
- Star Fish, 1829 Contributions Towards the Natural History of the Dodo (Didus Ineptus Lin.), a Bird which Appears to Have Become Extinct Towards the End of...