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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
- struthio type genus of the Struthionidae: African ostriches
- ratite bird flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds
- genus rhea type genus of the Rheidae; large tall flightless South American birds similar to but smaller than ostriches
- ostrich fern tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes