What is "struth"

Usage examples of "struth".

Unfortunately, that meant the Struth also could not hear said enemies approaching.

And as contented Struth generations passed, they became much larger and heavier and lost the ability to fly.

Maintaining a large rookery in their new homeland became quickly impossible as the sheer size of the Struth suggested a brighter future in small cooperative groups that would put far less stress on the food supply.

A superior signer had greater status than a Struth with a beautiful tail-feather display.

Eventually, a Struth philosopher could collapse the most intricate idea into a few symbols of great simplicity.

The gentle Struth were on the verge of evolving their signing language into written form when disaster struck.

A favorite villain was the Talon Thing that swooped out of the sky and carried away the little Struth to its own nest, where smaller Talon Things waited to eat the little Struth alive.

That beast, it was said, hid in the brush all day, waiting for groups of disobedient Struth young.

Eventually the Struth grew tired of hiding in rocky hills from creatures they had realized were not nearly as bright as themselves.

Unlike many other races on countless other worlds, when the Struth had run out of common enemies, they did not begin seeing a replacement among their own numbers.

Empire, the Struth language had reached the giddy heights of the purest of pure maths.

But the programs they wrote were so simple that they barely taxed the capacity of the most dim-witted Struth machine.

There was one requirement, however, written into every Struth contract with the outside.