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SOWPODS (Collins Scrabble Words)
OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)
"Ratite" Definition
noun
A ratite bird, such as the ostrich or emu.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
A bird with a flat breastbone.
Source: Merriam-Webster
Any of various mostly flightless birds (as an ostrich, rhea, emu, moa, or kiwi) with small or rudimentary wings and no keel on the sternum that are probably of polyphyletic origin and are assigned to a number of different orders.
Source: Merriam-Webster
Any of the mostly large, flightless birds with a ratite breastbone, i.e. the ostrich, rhea, emu, cassowary, and kiwi, together with the extinct moa and elephant bird.
Source: Oxford Dictionary
adjective
Relating to or being any of a group of flightless birds having a flat breastbone without the keellike prominence characteristic of most flying birds.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
(of a bird) having a flat breastbone without a keel, and so unable to fly.
Source: Oxford Dictionary
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