elephant bird

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   huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar

   Synonymsaepyornis

   Broaderratite

   Part ofgenus Aepyornis

Questions about elephant bird

What does elephant bird mean?

elephant bird means "huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar".

What is another word for elephant bird?

Close synonyms include aepyornis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elephant bird a common word?

elephant bird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.