struthio's Usage Examples:

As regards the struthious birds, they could not be likened to the duck, for in them at no age was there any indication of a single median centre of ossification, as Geoffroy had satisfied himself by his own observations made in Egypt many years before.

)CASSOWARY (Casuarius), a genus of struthious birds, only inferior in size to the emeu and ostrich, and, according to Sir R.

Dromaeognathae have a struthious palate, with a broad vomer meeting in front the broad maxillo-palatal plates, while behind it reaches the pterygoids.

CASSOWARY (Casuarius), a genus of struthious birds, only inferior in size to the emeu and ostrich, and, according to Sir R.

Non-committal as regards evolution, he vastly broadened the field of vertebrate palaeontology by his descriptions of the extinct fauna of England, of South America (including especially the great edentates revealed by the voyage of the " Beagle "), of Australia (the ancient and modern marsupials) and of New Zealand (the great struthious birds).

1 4 This peculiarity had led some zoologists to consider the struthious birds more nearly allied to the Mammalia than any others.

"The fossil egg of a struthious bird, Struthiolithus, has been found near Cherson, south Russia, and in north China.

Synonyms:

ostrich, Struthionidae, genus Struthio, Struthio camelus, family Struthionidae, bird genus,

Antonyms:

carinate,