2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Struthio \Stru"thi*o\, n.; pl. {Struthiones}. [L., an ostrich, fr. Gr. ?.] (Zool.) A genus of birds including the African ostriches. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Struthiones \Stru`thi*o"nes\, n. pl. [NL. See {Struthio}.] (Zool.) (a) A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches. (b) In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to {Ratitae}, or {Dromaeognathae}. [1913 Webster]
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