Type genus of the Struthionidae African ostriches

Usage examples of struthio.

Her real name was Joan Struthio, and she was met for club dinner with Harry Baldachin, Clement Flood, and Charles Broadman, all outstanding in the mentality set, because she had a publicity man who arranged such things.

The struthio twisted his head, examined the hand as if it might be tasty, and pecked the fingers lightly.

As the hunter and struthio circled, a third clown rolled a popcorn cart into the ring.

The hunter stopped, bought a bag of popcorn, and began to eat as the struthio caught up.

The struthio jumped and shook the bag loose, then chased all three clowns offstage.

Ashamed, the hunter sidled up to the cage door, big shoes slapping, but before he could close it, the struthio pushed it shut.

At the clang of steel meeting steel, the hunter jumped and shivered all over, nerves clearly shot, and the struthio nudged him none too gently out of the ring.

Peter entered the cage with Casso, the female struthio, and used a wide-toothed curry comb to groom her fine, tiny feathers.

They managed to guide each struthio back into its cage and the boom delivered them safely back into the hold, where Keller and his men tied them down again.

The rear bed of the truck ahead jerked under the sudden strain and the struthio cage rattled and banged.

It resembled a small struthio, but with large eyes and no feathery scales.

It had as its focus the early history of the Wild South on the neighboring world of Mwanamamke, complete with holographic representations of a vast struthio ranch.