Word Meanings - DINORNIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.

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• EXTINCT
  1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct. Milton. 2. Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
  The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
• INHABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• GIGANTIC
  1. Of extraordinary size; like a giant. 2. Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox.
• INHABITED
  Uninhabited. Brathwait.
• INHABITANT
  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
• GIGANTICAL
  Bulky, big. Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• INHABIT
  To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.
• INHABITRESS
  A female inhabitant.
• INHABITABLE
  Capable of being inhabited; habitable. Systems of inhabitable planets. Locke.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• INHABITER
  An inhabitant. Derham.
• EXTINCTION
  1. The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc. 2. State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction
• BIRDSEED
  Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
• INHABITIVENESS
  See LOWELL
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• NEW ZEALAND
  A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. New Zealand flax. A tall, liliaceous herb , having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like. The fiber itself. -- New
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
• INEXTINCT
  Not quenched; not extinct.