Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun apteryx

1 sense of apteryx

Sense 1
kiwi, apteryx -- (nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes)
       => 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)