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Webster 1913 Edition

Gastornis

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Gas-tor′nis

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Noun.

[NL., from

Gaston

M. Plante, the discover + Gr. [GREEK] bird.]

(Paleon.)

A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.

Definition 2024

Gastornis

Gastornis

Translingual

Proper noun

Gastornis m

A taxonomic genus within the family Gastornithidae – large flightless birds that lived during the late Paleocene and Eocene epochs of the Cenozoic era.