ratite
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Definition of ratite
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
-
(not-comparable)Pertaining to running, flightless birds with no keels on their sternums (as opposed to carinate).
“Against what was probably the general expectation, it became undeniable that New Zealand was indeed the home of huge ratite birds.”
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adj
-
(not-comparable)Pertaining to running, flightless birds with no keels on their sternums (as opposed to carinate).
“Against what was probably the general expectation, it became undeniable that New Zealand was indeed the home of huge ratite birds.”
noun
- A member of a diverse group of mostly large, running, flightless birds that lack keels on their sternums, mostly extinct such as the elephant bird and the moa, but including the extant cassowaries, emu, kiwi, ostrich, and rhea; formerly grouped together in the order Struthioniformes, and including the Paleognathae except the tinamous.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin ratis (“raft”) + -ite; ratites (unlike other birds) lack a keel on their sternum, and rafts are vessels that lack keels.
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