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Definition of Ratites
1. ratite [n] - See also: ratite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratites
Literary usage of Ratites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"... gave rise to the carinate birds is, in the writer's judgment, entirely untenable:
first, because an examination of the skulls of various ratites and ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"Secondly, and of greater importance, the patella, which, small and double in the
Ostrich, is rudimentary or absent altogether in the other ratites, ..."
3. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... big ratites (te, cursorial birds) are known, which can only have originated
from badly-flying ground-birds, whereas in more modern times the ratites are ..."
4. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... for even from the Eocene formation in most parts of the world numerous big
ratites (ie, cursorial birds) are known, which can only have originated from ..."
5. A Text-book of Zoogeography by Frank Evers Beddard (1895)
"Some of these birds were actually the largest known forms of ratites. It appears
from certain roughnesses on the bones of the skull that some species bore ..."
6. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"Apart from these, the earliest known ratites are ... Moreover, it is now tolerably
certain that the true ratites have originated from flying birds, ..."
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