Usage of "ratite" | TermGallery

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

carinate

struthioniformes

Synonyms

Examples for "ratite bird"

ratite bird
flightless bird

Examples for "ratite bird"

Gardaí have said they are investigating the case of the missing flightless bird. 
 The Irish Times 

Imagine if you were a flightless bird with young to protect. 
 The Irish Times 

Most folks, Rant says, move through time like a flightless bird on land. 
 Rant: an oral biography of buster casey 

A flightless bird that survived here because it was never threatened. 
 Full Circle 

But how did such the strange looking, flightless bird rise to such lofty heights? 
 Radio NZ 

Usage of ratite in English

Firefighters tried to shoo it off the road, but the ratite was having none of it. 
 Wired 

Neither do any of the rest of the big birds in the ratite family, which includes the emu, rhea and cassowary. 
 BBC 

When his team looked at the ancient DNA, they found it had far more in common with the kiwi than any other ratite. 
 Radio NZ 

All these flightless birds, as well as others such as the ostrich, are part of a group called ratites. 
 Radio NZ 

In Madagascar, the ancient ratites grew to gigantic proportions to fill that gap but in New Zealand it was a different story. 
 Radio NZ 

Frequent collocations

Translations for ratite

Russian

страусообразные

Portuguese

struthioniformes

Catalan

estrutioniforme

Spanish

struthioniformes ratitae

Ratite through the time

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Meanings of ratite in English