D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Ratitae

/(rȧ*tī"tē̇)/ · Ra·ti·tae · IPA
01 n. pl. An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, a…
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    An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples.(Zool.)