Category:Struthiones

Stru`thi*o"nes, n. pl. Etym: [nl. See struthio.] (zoöl.) (a) a division, or order, of birds, including only the african Ostriches. (b) in a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the Ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of Flight. In this sense it is equivalent to ratitæ, or dromæognathæ.