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Webster 1913 Edition
Struthiones
‖
Struˊthi-o′nes
,Noun.
pl.
[NL. See
Struthio
.] (Zool.)
(a)
A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches.
(b)
In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to
Ratitae
, or Dromaeognathae
.