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    FLIGHTLESS BIRD

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birdsplay

    Synonyms:

    flightless bird; ratite; ratite bird

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("flightless bird" is a kind of...):

    bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flightless bird"):

    ostrich; Struthio camelus (fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird)

    cassowary (large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest)

    Dromaius novaehollandiae; emu; Emu novaehollandiae (large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller)

    apteryx; kiwi (nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes)

    rhea; Rhea americana (larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia)

    nandu; Pterocnemia pennata; rhea (smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan)

    aepyornis; elephant bird (huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar)

    moa (extinct flightless bird of New Zealand)

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