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Definition of "flightless bird" [flightless bird]
- Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds (noun)
WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
Use "flightless bird" in a sentence
- "He had found a giant flightless bird known as Casuarius casuarius—more familiarly, the Australian cassowary."
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