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nounfast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird
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nouna person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)
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- rhea smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan
- rhea larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia
- ostrich a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)
- nandu smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan
- emu large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller
- fiddlehead tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
- shuttlecock fern tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
- order struthioniformes a ratite bird order: ostriches and related extinct birds; known from the Pleistocene onward
- emu novaehollandiae large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller
- struthio type genus of the Struthionidae: African ostriches