Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun aepyornis
1 sense of aepyornis
Sense 1
elephant bird, aepyornis -- (huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar)
=> ratite, ratite bird, flightless bird -- (flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds)