Didus (did us)

[NL., Latinized form of dodo, altered to give it a cla ical look, as if after Dido, the mythical foundre of Carthage: see dodo.] The typical genus of Didida, containing the extinct dodo of Mauritius, D. inept us. The general character of the genus is columbine or pigeon-like, but the size was comparatively enormous, the body ma ive and unwieldy, the wings unfit for flight, and the beak stout and hooked. The genus has become extinct since 1650. See dodo. Didymic comma. See comma, 5 (b). didymium (di-dim'i-um), n. [NL., 2. [ cap.] A genus of fungi belonging to the Myxomycetes. The sporangia have a double wall, which is covered externally with crystals of lime, either scattered or compacted into a separable crust. die inclosed in an obvious seed-ve el. The first included most of the Labiatæ and Verbenaceæ, the latter many Scrophulariacea, etc. didynamian, didynamic (did-i-nā'mi-an, -nam'ik), a. [