dodo tree

dodo tree (plural dodo trees)

1. A tree native to Mauritius, Sideroxylon grandiflorum.
   • 2017, Mark Carnall, The Guardian, 3 May:

     Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.

• tambalacoque