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Definitions of ostrich
  1. noun
    fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird

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  2. noun
    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)
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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
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