(pronounced "Mor-ree-shus")by European sea-faring adventurers, merchants, and pirates. The Dodo bird was related to the pigeon family. It weighed about fifty pounds and its body shape and facial features were similar to the way that Doodles is depicted, except that Dodos actually had downy ...
1. A large flightless bird (Raphus cucullatus) with a hooked beak that inhabited the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until it became extinct in the late 1600s. 2. Informal One who is out-of-date, as in dress or ideas. 3. Informal A stupid person; an idiot. [Portuguese dodó...