Dō'do, n.

n.; pl. Dō'-DOES. [Ger. dodo, dudo, dudu, didu, Pg. dondo.] (Ornith.) A bird of the genus Didus, of large size, once inhabiting the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, but now extinct. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, but a shorter neck and more clumsy and uncouth form; — called also dronte.