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flightless bird
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Noun flightless bird has 1 sense
- flightless bird(n = noun.animal) ratite, ratite bird - flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds; Array is a kind of bird
has particulars: ostrich, struthio camelus, cassowary, dromaius novaehollandiae, emu, emu novaehollandiae, apteryx, kiwi, rhea, rhea americana, nandu, pterocnemia pennata, rhea, aepyornis, elephant bird, moa
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