Usage examples (21)

• There is the kiwi, or apteryx, which is about as large as a turkey, but only found on the
• The object that had come between him and the Gulf was a mounted man-or rather, the idiot-headed apteryx the man was sitting on.
• Man had been defined as a gelastic apteryx, but in view of the attitude of women towards the Plumage Bill the definition could hardly be allowed to fit the requirements...
• The mammary glands of all male beasts constitute another example, as also does the wing of the apteryx -- a New Zealand bird utterly incapable of flight, and with the...