struthious

American  

[stroo-thee-uhs] / ˈstru θi əs /

adjective

1. resembling or related to the ostriches or other ratite birds.

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struthious British  

/ ˈstruːθɪəs /

adjective

1. (of birds) related to or resembling the ostrich

2. of, relating to, or designating all flightless (ratite) birds

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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

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

Ill. The Bomb Sir: It is time for Americans to become "struthious unbound."

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

The wings of struthious birds differ from those of the Carinatae, just described, in many ways.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

If it was that of the struthious birds, how did the pterodactyles and carinate birds independently arrive at the very same divergent structure?

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George