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Definition of Struthious
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.
Definition of Struthious
1. Adjective. like an ostrich or other ratite ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Struthious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Struthious
Literary usage of Struthious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1896)
"... in a position to offer to this Society some preliminary notes upon the subject
in respect of the remains of the large struthious bird which were found ..."
2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"A gigantic struthious bird ... the struthious birds, living and extinct, are
confined to the Southern hemisphere, each continent having its peculiar forms. ..."
3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"A gigantic struthious bird ... the struthious birds, living and extinct, are
confined to the Southern hemisphere, each continent having its peculiar forms. ..."
4. Habit and Intelligence: A Series of Essays on the Laws of Life and Mind by Joseph John Murphy (1879)
"But if this is true, the struthious birds, which are also short-tailed, ...
is due to a reversion of the struthious birds towards the origin of the class. ..."
5. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"Pandanus.—Its remarkable distribution in oceanic groups.—To be attributed perhaps
to extinct Columbas or extinct struthious birds.— Barringtonia.—Guettarda. ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1866)
"... 17. , Principal Forbes on the laws of the conduction of, in bars, 12.
•Hewlett (Rev. F. ) on the occurrence of the bones of extinct struthious birds ..."
7. Elements of Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1865)
"... of living vertebrata and those of extinct Post-pliocene species—Extinct
struthious birds of New Zealand —Fluctuations of climate in Post-glacial period ..."
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