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ratites

ratites is the plural of ratite.

Meaning of ratite

Noun

ratite (plural ratites)

  1. A member of a diverse group of mostly large, running, flightless birds that lack keels on their sternums, mostly extinct such as the elephant bird and the moa, but including the extant cassowaries, emu, kiwi, ostrich, and rhea; formerly grouped together in the order Struthioniformes, and including the Paleognathae except the tinamous.

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Questions about ratites

What is ratites the plural of?
Ratites is the plural of ratite.

Words near ratites in the dictionary

  1. Ratisbon
  2. ratissage
  3. ratissages
  4. ratitate
  5. ratite
  6. ratites
  7. ratiuncule
  8. ratiuncules
  9. ratkind
  10. Ratlam
  11. Ratledge

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