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Definitions of ratite in various dictionaries:
noun - flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches
A ratite bird, such as the ostrich or emu.
noun - a flightless bird
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| Kiwi, e.g. |
| Rhea, e.g. |
| Flightless bird |
| Many an Australian bird |
| Kiwi or rhea |
| Rhea or ostrich |
| Ostrich, e.g |
| The kiwi is the smallest one |
| Ostrich or emu |
| Emu or kiwi |
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| flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches cassowaries emus moas rheas kiwis elephant birds |
| Relating to or being any of a group of flightless birds having a flat breastbone without the keellike prominence characteristic of most flying birds. |
| A ratite bird, such as the ostrich or emu. |
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A ratite is any of a diverse group of flightless and mostly large and long-legged birds of the infraclass Palaeognathae. Kiwis, however, are relatively much smaller and shorter-legged, as well as being the only nocturnal ratites. * The systematics of and relationships within the paleognath clade have been in flux. Previously, all the flightless members had been assigned to the order Struthioniformes, which is more recently regarded as containing only the ostrich. The modern bird superorder Palaeognathae consists of ratites and flighted Neotropic tinamous (compare to Neognathae). Unlike other flightless birds, the ratites have no keel on their sternum hence the name from the Latin ratis (raft, a vessel which has no keel). Without this to anchor their wing muscles, they could not fly even if they were to develop suitable wings. Recent research has indicated that ratites are a paraphyletic group; tinamous fall within them, and are the sister group of the extinct moa. This implies that flig |