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DODO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: dodoes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons

Synonyms:

dodo; Raphus cucullatus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dodo" is a kind of...):

columbiform bird (a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes)

Holonyms ("dodo" is a member of...):

genus Raphus; Raphus (type genus of the Raphidae: dodos)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone whose style is out of fashion

Synonyms:

dodo; fogey; fogy; fossil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("dodo" is a kind of...):

golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

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