Crossword clues for ostrich
ostrich
- Large bird
- Earthbound bird
- Savanna grazer
- Large flightless bird
- Fast-running bird
- Swift-running bird
- African runner
- Bird that lays the largest eggs
- Source of lean meat
- Emu's cousin
- African bird
- Biggest bird
- ______ farm
- Swift-footed bird
- Source of material for a feather duster
- Serengeti sprinter
- Runner with big eggs
- Person refusing to face reality
- Largest flightless bird
- Flightless African ratite
- Fastest creature on two legs (up to 45 m.p.h.)
- Danger ducker
- Bird with a strong kick
- Bird that doesn't actually bury its head in the sand
- Bird that can run 40+ miles per hour
- African ratite
- African flightless bird
- Seven-foot runner
- Fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet
- Largest living bird
- Rhea's relative
- Big flightless bird
- Two-toed bird
- Nonflying bird
- Bird with a powerful kick
- Largest of existing birds
- Very large beetroot served with full-flavoured bird
- Escapist fantasy, essentially nothing's deep about it
- Over time, ridiculous to bury head in sand like this?
- One who can’t face the reality of being wealthier than everyone but not married
- Old twitcher's first to capture small, colourful bird
- Wealthiest losing millions - one refuses to face facts
- Someone unprepared to face the facts
- No way! Preposterous one won't face up to reality
- No flyer needs oxygen, by the way - laughable!
- No flights for me? East of Germany well-supplied
- Largest bird
- Big bird cost Richard — quite a lot
- To Chris (anag)
- This rock not completely malleable? I allegedly use sand!
- This roc, monstrous bird
- Flightless bird
- Big bird
- Leather source
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ostrich \os"trich\ ([o^]s"trich), n. [OE. ostriche, ostrice, OF. ostruche, ostruce, F. autruche, L. avis struthio; avis bird + struthio ostrich, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? bird, sparrow. Cf. Aviary, Struthious.] [Formerly written also estrich.] (Zo["o]l.) A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.
Note: The South African ostrich ( Struthio australis) and the Asiatic ostrich are considered distinct species by some authors. Ostriches are now domesticated in South Africa in large numbers for the sake of their plumes. The body of the male is covered with elegant black plumose feathers, while the wings and tail furnish the most valuable white plumes.
Ostrich farm, a farm on which ostriches are bred for the sake of their feathers, oil, eggs, etc.
Ostrich farming, the occupation of breeding ostriches for the sake of their feathers, etc.
Ostrich fern (Bot.) a kind of fern ( Onoclea Struthiopteris), the tall fronds of which grow in a circle from the rootstock. It is found in alluvial soil in Europe and North America.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from Old French ostruce "ostrich" (Modern French autruche) and Medieval Latin ostrica, ostrigius, all from Vulgar Latin avis struthio, from Latin avis "bird" (see aviary) + Late Latin struthio "ostrich," from Greek strouthion "ostrich," from strouthos megale "big sparrow," perhaps from PIE *trozdo- "thrush" (see thrush (n.1)). The Greeks also knew the bird as strouthokamelos "camel-sparrow," for its long neck. Among its proverbial peculiarities are indiscriminate voracity (especially a habit of swallowing iron and stone to aid digestion), want of regard for its eggs, and a tendency to hide its head in the sand when pursued.Like the Austridge, who hiding her little head, supposeth her great body obscured. [1623, recorded in OED]Ostriches do put their heads in the sand, but ostrich farmers say they do this in search of something to eat.
Wiktionary
n. A large flightless bird (''Struthio camelus'') native to Africa.
WordNet
n. a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)
fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird [syn: Struthio camelus]
Wikipedia
An Ostrich is a large flightless bird.
Ostrich may also refer to:
Ostrich (Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology) is a journal of African ornithology published by BirdLife South Africa, formerly the South African Ornithological Society, in association with the National Information Services Corporation (NISC). It contains papers on the birds of Africa and its islands, including peer-reviewed original scientific papers of 3000 to 10,000 words, short articles of up to 2000 words, and reviews. Topics include behaviour, breeding, biology, ecology, migrations, movements and systematics.
Ostrich is the fifteenth studio album by the American rock band Crack the Sky, released October 23, 2012.
The ostrich or common ostrich (Struthio camelus) is either one or two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member(s) of the genus Struthio, which is in the ratite family. In 2014, the Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes) was recognized as a distinct species.
The ostrich shares the order Struthioniformes with the kiwis, emus, rheas, and cassowaries. However, phylogenetic studies have shown that it is the basal extant member of Palaeognathae and is thus equally closely related to flighted tinamous. It is distinctive in its appearance, with a long neck and legs, and can run at up to about , the fastest land speed of any bird. The ostrich is the largest living species of bird and lays the largest eggs of any living bird (extinct elephant birds of Madagascar and the giant moa of New Zealand laid larger eggs).
The ostrich's diet consists mainly of plant matter, though it also eats invertebrates. It lives in nomadic groups of 5 to 50 birds. When threatened, the ostrich will either hide itself by lying flat against the ground, or run away. If cornered, it can attack with a kick of its powerful legs. Mating patterns differ by geographical region, but territorial males fight for a harem of two to seven females.
The ostrich is farmed around the world, particularly for its feathers, which are decorative and are also used as feather dusters. Its skin is used for leather products and its meat is marketed commercially, with its leanness a common marketing point.
Usage examples of "ostrich".
It comes from the Corn Blough Ostrich farm in KalamazooI tell you, those girls have no fear.
Its general appearance was not unlike that of a Terran ostrich - but the wings, each bearing at its tip a manipulatory claw, seemed to be functional.
A blue parapluie protected her comely peacock hat, with its curling ostrich feathers, from the elements.
The adjacent pastures were covered with flocks and herds: the paradise or park was replenished with pheasants, peacocks, ostriches, roebucks, and wild boars, and the noble game of lions and tigers was sometimes turned loose for the bolder pleasures of the chase.
Oviraptor, a therapod relative of the Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus rex and the Jurassic predator Allosaurus, but about the size of a small ostrich.
A casoar would of course be called an ostrich, and here we have for the first time a picturesque description of that Australasian bird.
THE dawn was about to break in a cloudless sky, when Tancred, accompanied by Baroni and two servants, all well armed and well mounted, and by Hassan, a sheikh of the Jellaheen Bedouins, tall and grave, with a long spear tufted with ostrich feathers in his hand, his musket slung at his back, and a scimitar at his side, quitted Jerusalem by the gate of Bethlehem.
By 1993, flocks of emus and ostriches ranging from a half dozen to several hundred birds were roaming through the hills destroying property and occasionally slicing or trampling people and livestock to death.
The weapons had initially been designed for use against emus only, but then a representative from Dripping Springs rose to point out that ostriches, while fewer in number, had also caused plenty of trouble.
Camels, he insisted, were far more hostile to man than either emus or ostriches --and if the so-called emu pistols did not include a setting for camels, he would block the appropriation for their manufacture.
Chapter VII Instinct Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin -- Instincts graduated -- Aphides and ants -- Instincts variable -- Domestic instincts, their origin -- Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees -- Slave-making ants -- Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct - - Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts -- Neuter or sterile insects -- Summary.
We may imagine that the early progenitor of the ostrich had habits like those of a bustard, and that as natural selection increased in successive generations the size and weight of its body, its legs were used more, and its wings less, until they became incapable of flight.
About half of the ornithomimids, looking like plucked ostriches, were likely hosting Hets, for they were looking intently at the tableau of tanks and triceratopses.
In pale, ice-blue silk and ostrich plumes, she was as lovely now as in the portrait Gainsborough had painted when she was twenty and a newlywed duchess.
She bought only one hat from Madame Reboux, but on the other hand she filled a trunk with sprigs of artificial cherries, stalks of all the felt flowers she could find, branches of ostrich plumes, crests of peacocks, tailfeathers of Asiatic roosters, entire pheasants, hummingbirds, and a countless variety of exotic birds preserved in midflight, midcall, midagony: everything that had been used in the past twenty years to change the appearance of hats.