Notornis

noun

No·​tor·​nis

nəˈtȯrnə̇s

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

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from not- + New Latin -ornis

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