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Meanings of ratite bird in English
Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds.
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Examples for "ratite"
Examples for "ratite"
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Firefighters tried to shoo it off the road, but the ratite was having none of it.
2
Neither do any of the rest of the big birds in the ratite family, which includes the emu, rhea and cassowary.
3
When his team looked at the ancient DNA, they found it had far more in common with the kiwi than any other ratite.
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All these flightless birds, as well as others such as the ostrich, are part of a group called ratites.
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In Madagascar, the ancient ratites grew to gigantic proportions to fill that gap but in New Zealand it was a different story.
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Gardaí have said they are investigating the case of the missing flightless bird.
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Imagine if you were a flightless bird with young to protect.
3
Most folks, Rant says, move through time like a flightless bird on land.
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A flightless bird that survived here because it was never threatened.
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But how did such the strange looking, flightless bird rise to such lofty heights?