It is as fabulous as the dodo, the salamander, or the phoenix.
Its carnivorous enemies among the lower animals, would have cut short the existence of the dodo, even if man had never planted his conquering footsteps upon that island.
The dodo of Mauritius was exterminated by swine, whose bipedal descendants have exterminated many other species since that time.
There can be no doubt that the dodo was one of those instances, well known to naturalists, of a species, or part of a species, remaining permanently in an undeveloped state.
With our own experience—and that is somewhat extensive—of sailors in general, and Dutch ones in particular, we must infer that these dodos were very, very fat, indeed.
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We have an entry fordodobut dead as thedodo(which is surely the main point) isn't mentioned.
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The third type of constraint-neutral utterance consists of juxtaposed translation equivalents, like ' 'sleepingdodo' '.
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The importance of knowing adodois a bird : categories and inferences in two-year-olds.
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When languages are gone they are gone, and we need the right kind of language to defend them before too many more go the way of thedodo.
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The "no aid to industrial lame ducks "policy is as dead as if the ducks had been lame dodos.
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We shall have to be careful that in many areas the sea urchin does not go the way of thedodo.
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This issue of steel nationalisation is as dead as thedodo.
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There is also the old free trade, which most people regard as being as dead as thedodo.
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Let us agree once and for all that this business of fee-paying is an argument as dead as adodo.
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We know that the statutory committees are as dead as thedodo.
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We were all waiting for him to come forward and speak, but instead he drew a wonderful picture of adodoon the blackboard.
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The new clause is like feeding aspirin to adodounless we can find a way to tackle inflation.
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After yesterday, may we take it that the concept of non-premium gas has gone the way of thedodo?
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The unconditional most-favoured-nation clause is as dead as thedodo.
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The effect will be that wage structures at present based on incentive bonuses and so on will become as dead as thedodo.
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