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Significados de flightless bird en inglés

portugués
struthioniformes
catalán
estrutioniforme
español
ratitae

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

      ratitae
      ruso
      нелетающие птицы
      portugués
      aves não voadoras
      español
      ave no voladora
      catalán
      ocell no volador

      Bird that lack the ability to fly.

            ave no voladora
            Sinónimos
            Examples for "ratite"
            Examples for "ratite"
            1
            Firefighters tried to shoo it off the road, but the ratite was having none of it.
            Wired
            2
            Neither do any of the rest of the big birds in the ratite family, which includes the emu, rhea and cassowary.
            BBC
            3
            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
            4
            All these flightless birds, as well as others such as the ostrich, are part of a group called ratites.
            Radio NZ
            5
            In Madagascar, the ancient ratites grew to gigantic proportions to fill that gap but in New Zealand it was a different story.
            Radio NZ
            Uso de flightless bird en inglés
            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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            Translations for flightless bird
            Flightless bird a través del tiempo