struthious
Americanadjective
adjective
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(of birds) related to or resembling the ostrich
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of, relating to, or designating all flightless (ratite) birds
Etymology
Origin of struthious
1765–75; < Late Latin strūthi ( ō ) ostrich (< Late Greek strouthíōn, derivative of Greek strouthós sparrow, bird; compare strouthòs ho mégas ostrich, literally, the big bird) + -ous
Example Sentences
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Ill. The Bomb Sir: It is time for Americans to become "struthious unbound."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the same sense, it would be struthious for the U.S. electorate to base its November judgment on the notion that either presidential candidate has discussed the nuclear control issue accurately or fully.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, as one U.S. journalist warned, it would be "struthious"* folly to ignore the implications of what Khrushchev said.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dromaeognathae have a struthious palate, with a broad vomer meeting in front the broad maxillo-palatal plates, while behind it reaches the pterygoids.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
But besides this general evidence we have direct proof that the struthious birds had a wider range in past times than now.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel
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