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Notornis

noun
No·​tor·​nis | \ nəˈtȯrnə̇s\

Definition of Notornis

1 : porphyrio sense 1
2 notornis plural notornis : takahe Then there's the takahe, the giant flightless “notornis” thought to be extinct until rediscovered in the late 1940s in Fiordland.— Brian Rudman, The New Zealand Herald, 30 June 2010

History and Etymology for Notornis

New Latin, from not- + New Latin -ornis

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