The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Struthio \Stru"thi*o\, n.; pl. Struthiones. [L., an ostrich,
fr. Gr. ?.] (Zool.)
A genus of birds including the African ostriches.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Struthiones \Stru`thi*o"nes\, n. pl. [NL. See Struthio.]
(Zool.)
(a) A division, or order, of birds, including only the
African ostriches.
(b) In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including
the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds
incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to
Ratitae, or Dromaeognathae.
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