Definition of "ostrichlike" [ostrichlike]

• Resembling an ostrich or some aspect of one. (adjective)

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• "Wild, ostrichlike rheas called nandus wandered the pastures below our balcony, intermingling with noisy, attitudinous black-and-white southern lapwings, chubby cattle, and polo ponies -- their bubble-level playing fields in the foreground a reminder that this version of Eden has been subtly but forcefully shaped to suit the estancia owners 'preoccupations."
• "This downward slide started 2,000 years ago when immigrants from what is now Indonesia wiped out species of pygmy hippos and large, ostrichlike birds."
• "On the South American mainland, Darwin had seen two different yet closely related species of Rhea, those ostrichlike birds, both species occupying the plains of Patagonia."