dodo
渡鸦,嘟嘟,渡渡鸟,渡船
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plural do·dos, do·does.
- : any of several clumsy, flightless, extinct birds of the generaRaphus and Pezophaps, related to pigeons but about the size of a turkey, formerly inhabiting the islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodriguez.
- : Slang. a dull-witted, slow-reacting person.
- : a person with old-fashioned, conservative, or outmoded ideas.
- : a thing that is outmoded or obsolete.
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His project explored the idea of whether it would be possible to recreate the dodo bird.
Pitcher wins have rightly gone the way of the dodo over the past decade, and seasons like the ones deGrom had are a great case study in why.
The push to prevent extinctions from happening came in the 1800s, with the realization that species such as the dodo had disappeared forever.
In my Monday column I noted that the hand-cranked eggbeater seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
As David Quammen described in his elegiac The Song of the Dodo, islands are “where species go to die.”
Republicans are going the way of the dodo in the Golden State.
Since the Cold War, Kissingerians have largely gone the way of the dodo bird inside the GOP.
Ever the optimist, Crystal believes that languages need not meet the fate of the dodo bird.
"Paul did it," accused Dodo, waving a pudgy, ink-stained little fist in the direction of her brother.
And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.
However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out 'The race is over!'
When that day comes, proprietary humbugs like Sanatogen will have become as extinct as the dodo and the great auk.
Ultimately, Torkington sailed in a new ship of 800 tons,5 under a patron named Thomas Dodo.