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Definition of Ostrichlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostrichlike
Literary usage of Ostrichlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural Advanced Geography by Jacques Wardlaw Redway, Russell Hinman (1898)
"Among the birds are the large ostrichlike running birds — the emu, the cassowary
and the kiwi ; the brush turkeys, which do not sit on their eggs, ..."
2. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1903)
"Lucas thinks that this huge bird was more closely related to the waders. Marsh also
found a gigantic ostrichlike bird ..."
3. Elementary Physical Geography by William Morris Davis (1903)
"Various species of cassowaries, large ostrichlike birds unable to fly or swim,
are found in Australia and on the hilly islands to the north, each land area ..."
4. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Frank Martindale Webster, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones (1918)
"O ostrichlike forgetfulness! O loss of larger in the less! Was there no star that
could be sent, No watcher in the firmament, No angel from the countless ..."
5. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"... 'the four seasons do not tend And tides of life and increase lend; And every
chick of every bird. And weed and rock-moss is preferred. O ostrichlike ..."
6. The Bird: Its Form and Function by William Beebe (1906)
"Beginning with the ostrichlike group at the bottom of the list, we find ourselves
face to face with an interesting state of things, to which the number of ..."
7. U.S.-Japan Strategic Reciprocity: A Neo-Internationalist View by Edward A. Olsen (1985)
"... admitting for the record that Japan chooses to remain ostrichlike, officially
naive, and will let the United States deceive the Japanese on this issue. ..."
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