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dodo

/ˈdəʊdəʊ

noun (plural dodos or dodoes)

1A large extinct flightless bird with a stout body, stumpy wings, a large head, and a heavy hooked bill. It was found on Mauritius until the end of the 17th century.

Raphus cucullatus, family Raphidae. See also solitaire (sense 3).

The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, flightless bird, the dodo....

A giant flightless bird like the dodo is on the extreme end of avian evolution.
One of her donations to the museum is reputed to be the only egg in existence of the extinct, flightless dodo bird.

1.1 informal An old-fashioned and ineffective person: dodos do enter the events, they just never make the finals

Phrases

(as) dead as a (or the) dodo

Origin

Early 17th century: from Portuguese doudo 'simpleton' (because the bird had no fear of man and was easily killed). Compare with dotterel.

The dodo was a large, heavily built flightless bird found on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until it was hunted to extinction, because, apparently, of its lack of fear of human beings. When sailors and colonists came to the island in the 16th and 17th centuries they discovered that it was very easy to catch and kill, a characteristic which gave it its name: dodo comes from Portuguese duodo, meaning ‘simpleton’. By the end of the 17th century the dodo had died out. Its fate prompted the expression as dead as a dodo, ‘completely dead or extinct’. See also dead

单词	dodo
释义	dodo /ˈdəʊdəʊ / noun (plural dodos or dodoes) 1A large extinct flightless bird with a stout body, stumpy wings, a large head, and a heavy hooked bill. It was found on Mauritius until the end of the 17th century. Raphus cucullatus, family Raphidae. See also solitaire (sense 3). The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, flightless bird, the dodo.... A giant flightless bird like the dodo is on the extreme end of avian evolution. One of her donations to the museum is reputed to be the only egg in existence of the extinct, flightless dodo bird. 1.1 informal An old-fashioned and ineffective person: dodos do enter the events, they just never make the finals Phrases (as) dead as a (or the) dodo Origin Early 17th century: from Portuguese doudo 'simpleton' (because the bird had no fear of man and was easily killed). Compare with dotterel. The dodo was a large, heavily built flightless bird found on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until it was hunted to extinction, because, apparently, of its lack of fear of human beings. When sailors and colonists came to the island in the 16th and 17th centuries they discovered that it was very easy to catch and kill, a characteristic which gave it its name: dodo comes from Portuguese duodo, meaning ‘simpleton’. By the end of the 17th century the dodo had died out. Its fate prompted the expression as dead as a dodo, ‘completely dead or extinct’. See also dead Rhymes Komodo, Quasimodo
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