Dodo
noun
A big, extinct bird that could not fly and originally lived on the island of Mauritius.
The dodo bird became extinct in the 17th century due to human activities.
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Academic
noun
A stupid person.
Don't just stand there like a dodo, help me carry these boxes!
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Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A big, extinct bird that could not fly and originally lived on the island of Mauritius.
The dodo bird became extinct in the 17th century due to human activities.
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A stupid person.
Don't just stand there like a dodo, help me carry these boxes!
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Extinct Species
Use 'dodo' when discussing species that have disappeared forever, often due to human impact.
Like the dodo, many species have become extinct because of habitat destruction.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Reference
The dodo is often used to discuss history, especially about Mauritius and 17th-century explorations.
The dodo is an iconic representative of the fauna that was encountered during historical voyages to Mauritius.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Symbol
'Dodo' can symbolize outdated things or concepts that no longer exist.
Like the ancient cassette tape, my old computer is basically a dodo now.
Pro Tip 1/3Extinct Species
Use 'dodo' when discussing species that have disappeared forever, often due to human impact.
Like the dodo, many species have become extinct because of habitat destruction.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Reference
The dodo is often used to discuss history, especially about Mauritius and 17th-century explorations.
The dodo is an iconic representative of the fauna that was encountered during historical voyages to Mauritius.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Symbol
'Dodo' can symbolize outdated things or concepts that no longer exist.
Like the ancient cassette tape, my old computer is basically a dodo now.
Pro Tip 1/3Extinct Species
Use 'dodo' when discussing species that have disappeared forever, often due to human impact.
Like the dodo, many species have become extinct because of habitat destruction.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Reference
The dodo is often used to discuss history, especially about Mauritius and 17th-century explorations.
The dodo is an iconic representative of the fauna that was encountered during historical voyages to Mauritius.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Symbol
'Dodo' can symbolize outdated things or concepts that no longer exist.
Like the ancient cassette tape, my old computer is basically a dodo now.
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Humble plants that hide...
and with it, important plants with medicinal potential or which could have ingredients that would speak to the cosmetic, nutrition, pharma, and even the ethno-veterinary sectors, be gone forever. And here we have a very prime example of the iconic dodo, which comes from Mauritius,
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The Secret Life of...
commissioned mansoor to paint all kinds of wildlife mansour made one of the most accurate paintings of the dodo bird before it went extinct and he's said to have painted more than a hundred types of flowers in cashmere although only one of those paintings survives
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Why can't some birds...
only a short run before going the way of the dodo. But a few flightless birds have survived on mainlands alongside predators aplenty. Unlike most small flightless species that come and go quickly, these giants have been flightless for tens of millions of years.
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National Geographic...
Cooper who's now in in Adelaide and he really wanted to do this work and they didn't trust that if they let the dodo sit somewhere in the museum where he could get to it he wouldn't sneak in late at night and take that sample
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The case of the missing...
"Is it a dodo egg?" "It's not an egg!" I took out the rock that had nearly brained me before and gave it a hard ponder. The size of the rising bump on my conk said to me that this thing had area, and a lot of it.
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Latif Nasser: The...
He was supposed to be a brute, a villain -- not a nerdy do-gooder. His medical colleagues didn't know his secret, either. As he put it, "If you were an athlete, you were a dumb dodo."
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Adam Savage: My...
wouldn't it be great if I had my own dodo skeleton? I want to point out here at this point that I've spent my life obsessed by objects and the stories that they tell,
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Twin Epidemic PIPE National...
each pair will undergo a complete medical check-up and assessment we have gone dodo explaining to each of them what the health camp is we expect most of them to
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Reversing animal...
change next animal passenger pigeon okay in North Dakota science fair ben novack imagine how he could bring back the extinct dodo 12 years later we employed
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Body Search PIPE Locked Up...
and I'm looking out the door I feel like the dog looking at me stay over there dodo come this way my heart was just pounding everything was becoming so much
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Humble plants that hide...
and with it, important plants with medicinal potential or which could have ingredients that would speak to the cosmetic, nutrition, pharma, and even the ethno-veterinary sectors, be gone forever. And here we have a very prime example of the iconic dodo, which comes from Mauritius,
Video examples
The Secret Life of...
commissioned mansoor to paint all kinds of wildlife mansour made one of the most accurate paintings of the dodo bird before it went extinct and he's said to have painted more than a hundred types of flowers in cashmere although only one of those paintings survives
Video examples
Why can't some birds...
only a short run before going the way of the dodo. But a few flightless birds have survived on mainlands alongside predators aplenty. Unlike most small flightless species that come and go quickly, these giants have been flightless for tens of millions of years.
Video examples
National Geographic...
Cooper who's now in in Adelaide and he really wanted to do this work and they didn't trust that if they let the dodo sit somewhere in the museum where he could get to it he wouldn't sneak in late at night and take that sample
Video examples
The case of the missing...
"Is it a dodo egg?" "It's not an egg!" I took out the rock that had nearly brained me before and gave it a hard ponder. The size of the rising bump on my conk said to me that this thing had area, and a lot of it.
Video examples
Latif Nasser: The...
He was supposed to be a brute, a villain -- not a nerdy do-gooder. His medical colleagues didn't know his secret, either. As he put it, "If you were an athlete, you were a dumb dodo."
Video examples
Adam Savage: My...
wouldn't it be great if I had my own dodo skeleton? I want to point out here at this point that I've spent my life obsessed by objects and the stories that they tell,
Video examples
Twin Epidemic PIPE National...
each pair will undergo a complete medical check-up and assessment we have gone dodo explaining to each of them what the health camp is we expect most of them to
Video examples
Reversing animal...
change next animal passenger pigeon okay in North Dakota science fair ben novack imagine how he could bring back the extinct dodo 12 years later we employed
Video examples
Body Search PIPE Locked Up...
and I'm looking out the door I feel like the dog looking at me stay over there dodo come this way my heart was just pounding everything was becoming so much
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Quote examples
Robert Gottlieb
American Writer
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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Jeremy Grantham
British Businessman
The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.
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Adam Carolla
American Entertainer
I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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Duane Michals
American Photographer
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
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Vinnie Jones
British Actor
The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.
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Joan Fontaine
American Actress
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.
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Annie Lennox
Scottish Musician
I would love to meet a dodo.
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Robert Gottlieb
American Writer
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
Quote examples
Jeremy Grantham
British Businessman
The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.
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Adam Carolla
American Entertainer
I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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Duane Michals
American Photographer
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
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Vinnie Jones
British Actor
The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.
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Joan Fontaine
American Actress
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.
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Annie Lennox
Scottish Musician
I would love to meet a dodo.
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