Flightless Bird

Definition: Flightless Bird

Flightless Bird

Noun

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

Synonyms: Flightless Bird

Synonyms: ratite (n), ratite bird (n). (additional references)

Antonym: carinate (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Flightless Bird

English words defined with "flightless bird": aepyornis, apteryx ♦ cassowary ♦ dodo, Dromaius novaehollandiae ♦ elephant bird, emu, Emu novaehollandiae ♦ kiwi ♦ moa ♦ ostrich ♦ Pezophaps solitaria ♦ Raphus cucullatus ♦ solitaire, Struthio camelus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "flightless bird": Basic ITT&B Infrastructure for Rural Development ♦ mnemonic induction of lucid dreaming. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Flightless Bird

Domain	Title
Books	The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Flightless Bird

Illustrations: Flightless Bird
	Subject(s): ... flightless, large, flightless bird, standing ...
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Anagrams: Flightless Bird

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-f-g-h-i-i-l-l-r-s-s-t"
	-4 letters: billfishes, distillers, firelights, flightless, redistills, sidelights.
	-5 letters: blighters, blighties, disherits, disrelish, distiller, filisters, firelight, flightier, frilliest, grisliest, helilifts, hillsides, libelists, lightless, redistill, redshifts, shrillest, sidehills, sidelight, sightlier.
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