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Ratite

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Noun

1. flightless bird, ratite, ratite bird

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ratite

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adjective
1. 
(of flightless birds) having a breastbone that lacks a keel for the attachment of flight muscles
2. 
of or denoting the flightless birds, formerly classified as a group (the Ratitae), that have a flat breastbone, feathers lacking vanes, and reduced wings
noun
3. 
a bird, such as an ostrich, kiwi, or rhea, that belongs to this group; a flightless bird

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Ratite

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adjective
1. 
designating a former group (Ratitae) of large, flightless birds of various orders having a flat breastbone without the keel-like ridge of flying birds
noun
2. 
any bird with such a breastbone, as the cassowary, ostrich, or kiwi

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ratite

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adj.
Relating to or being any of a group of flightless birds having a flat breastbone without the keellike prominence characteristic of most flying birds.
n.
A ratite bird, such as the ostrich or emu.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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