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Meanings of flightless bird in English

Portuguese
struthioniformes
Catalan
estrutioniforme
Spanish
ratitae

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

      struthioniformes
      Russian
      нелетающие птицы
      Portuguese
      aves não voadoras
      Spanish
      ave no voladora
      Catalan
      ocell no volador

      Bird that lack the ability to fly.

            нелетающие птицы
            Synonyms
            Examples for "flightless birds"
            Examples for "flightless birds"
            1
            They were large, bipedal, flightless birds, covered with reddish-gray scales instead of feathers.
            The broken blade
            2
            Maybe flightless birds were the leading edge.
            Wired
            3
            But flightless birds are last season now.
            The Irish Times
            4
            Dodos were flightless birds, related to pigeons.
            BBC
            5
            Presumably, hitting defenceless, tame, flightless birds over the head with a club was just something to do.
            The god delusion
            Usage of flightless bird in English
            1
            Gardaí have said they are investigating the case of the missing flightless bird.
            The Irish Times
            2
            Imagine if you were a flightless bird with young to protect.
            The Irish Times
            3
            Most folks, Rant says, move through time like a flightless bird on land.
            Rant: an oral biography of buster casey
            4
            A flightless bird that survived here because it was never threatened.
            Full Circle
            5
            But how did such the strange looking, flightless bird rise to such lofty heights?
            Radio NZ
            6
            First to go was a flightless bird called a rail.
            Dagmar's daughter
            7
            She doubted that any small rodent or flightless bird would describe him as sweet.
            Chocolate chip cookie murder
            8
            Tony Herrings is working with Thames Valley Police to recapture the 5ft tall flightless bird.
            BBC
            9
            If you want to pass on your genetic material, do not be a flightless bird.
            Reuters
            10
            The iconic flightless bird grinned from each plastic cup.
            Bones Never Lie
            11
            They were followed by the dressed carcass of a flightless bird bigger than a man.
            Ringworld
            12
            A prehistoric flightless bird fought medieval-style bouts with wings designed as bone-crunching flails, research has shown.
            The Irish Times
            13
            The great flightless bird moved with a bobbing, rolling run that translated smoothly through the wheels.
            Perdido Street Station
            14
            The flightless bird was about the size of a chicken, with a long beak and legs.
            Wired
            15
            The dodo, a large flightless bird that was endemic to Mauritius has been extinct for over 300 years.
            BBC
            16
            Then another flightless bird raced between him and the hovel, its movements frozen in series of lightning flashes.
            The brazen gambit
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            Flightless bird through the time