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nounflightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds
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- partridge heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
- rheiformes a ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus: recent and extinct rheas
- dinornithiformes a ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand
- order rheiformes a ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus: recent and extinct rheas
- tinamou heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
- struthioniformes a ratite bird order: ostriches and related extinct birds; known from the Pleistocene onward
- order apterygiformes a ratite bird order: flightless ground birds having vestigial wings and long bills and small eyes: kiwis
- order struthioniformes a ratite bird order: ostriches and related extinct birds; known from the Pleistocene onward
- apterygiformes a ratite bird order: flightless ground birds having vestigial wings and long bills and small eyes: kiwis
- order casuariiformes a ratite bird order: cassowaries and emus