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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Polyphyletic groups, long volume value, Ratites, Flightless birds
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ratite  ratite bird  flightless bird  Struthioniformes  Giant flightless bird
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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 Open English WordNet
Flightless birds are birds that, through evolution, lost the ability to fly. Wikipedia
A ratite is any of a group of mostly large, long-necked, and long-legged birds of the infraclass Palaeognathae. Wikipedia
Bird that lack the ability to fly Wikidata
A bird of the order of Struthioniformes, a diverse group of large running, flightless birds, mostly extinct, but including the cassowary, elephant bird, emu, kiwi, moa, ostrich, rhea and tinamou. Wiktionary