Definition of ratites Ratites
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What does ratites mean?
Wiktionary 
- ratites (Noun)
Plural of ratite.
Part of speech
🔤- ratites, noun, plural of ratite.
WordNet
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| ratite - flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds | ||
| ratite bird, flightless bird | ||
| carinate, carinate bird, flying bird birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles | ||
| bird warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings | ||
| struthio camelus, ostrich fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird | ||
| cassowary large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | ||
| dromaius novaehollandiae, emu novaehollandiae, emu large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller | ||
| apteryx, kiwi nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes | ||
| rhea americana, rhea larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia | ||
| nandu, pterocnemia pennata, rhea larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia | ||
| aepyornis, elephant bird huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ratite (a.)
Of or pertaining to the Ratitae. - ratite (n.)
One of the Ratitae.
Wikipedia 
- A ratite is a large, flightless bird, most of which are now extinct. Unlike other flightless birds, the ratites have no keel on their sternum.
Part of speech
🔤- ratite, noun, singular of ratites.
