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• His fortunes have been going south ever since he was tricked into investing in that ostrich farm.From the entry south
• Burying its head in the sand is fabulously attributed to the ostrich.From the entry fabulously
• Ostriches look like emus to some people, but they are only distantly related.From the entry look like
• Ostriches are the tallest living birds.From the entry tall
• The ostrich is a cursorial bird.From the entry cursorial
• A rasp of guinea fowl honked as 'Emma' the ostrich pecked.2025, Rory MacLean, Nick Danziger, Back in the USSR. From the entry rasp
• Two of the final clips show a herd of ostriches running down a city street.2023 July 6, Melissa Goldin, Karena Phan, “Videos of lions and other animals roaming city streets have nothing to do with protests in…. From the entry Chongzuo
• In our ragbag of stereotypes, ostriches have thus become the quintessential dim-witted animals.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody's fool”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National…. From the entry ragbag
• The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine. From the entry amenable
• It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.2018, Michael Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol Newsom, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha. From the entry haunt
• And there's always the osturducken, which is a turducken tucked into an ostrich.2001 November 21, Towse, “Terducken redux …”, in misc.writing (Usenet). From the entry osturducken
• This condition is shared only by the ostrich, the penguins, and the colies.1983, Oliver Luther Austin, Birds of the World, page 63. From the entry coly
• Mildred wore a black picture hat with ostrich feathers in it, which became her well.1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 61, in Of Human Bondage. From the entry picture hat
• The usual kinds of ostrich feathers known to the trade come into the Tripoli market.1909 August 12, “Ostrich Feathers of Tripoli”, in Neenah Daily Times, volume 53, number 8,451, Neenah, Wis.; Menasha, Wis., column 5. From the entry white
• But ostriches in breeding season are relentlessly promiscuous, with both males and females seeking liaisons with multiple partners.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine. From the entry play the field
• The ostrich can loosen the feathers to help dissipate body heat or draw them close to conserve it.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine. From the entry flounciness
• Our traditional South African version is the Osturducken, an ostrich stuffed with turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken.2001 November 20, Hane, quoting Jan, “Turk-Duck-Hen”, in houston.eats (Usenet). From the entry osturducken
• According to Hottentot legend, the cape fox feeds on ostrich eggs by rolling them over rocks until they break open.1972, Bernhard Grzimek, Grzimek's Animal life encyclopedia, page 253. From the entry vulpid
• Once upon a time there was an ostrich who, though very ostrichy, was even more of an egoist.1914 July 22, “Once upon a Time. Transmigration.”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXLVII, London: […] the Office, […], page 85. From the entry ostrichy
• That flounciness is also the quality that has caused human fashion to repeatedly fall in and out of love with ostrich feathers.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine. From the entry flounciness
• Another very notable feature of Madagascar was the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus), an enormous relative of the ostrich which reached 3 m in height.2009, Jonathan Adams, Species Richness: Patterns in the Diversity of Life, page 242. From the entry elephant bird
• Based on this evidence, we concluded an ostrich instruction was appropriate because a jury could reasonably conclude that he had deliberately avoided the truth.1999, U.S. v. Craig, 178 F.3d 891 (7th Cir. 1999). From the entry ostrich instruction
• A clockwork model of an ostrich pulling a wickerwork governess-cart; the cart had a rear driver's seat and was decorated with poker-work.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 84. From the entry pokerwork
• The Giant's boots were of pink leather and had tassels on them and his hat was decorated with an enormous pink ostrich feather, carefully curled.1912, L. Frank Baum, The Patchwork Girl of Oz. From the entry tassel
• Plural number is typically marked on English count nouns with an -s or -es on the end of the word, such as girls, pizzas, rocks, neighbors, ostriches.2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Grammar” (chapter 3), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry count noun
• Fields (or “camps”) enclosed by chest-high wire fences now contain thousands of ostriches in seeming harmony, sometimes spread out like feathered chess pieces, sometimes seated in clusters.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine. From the entry seeming
• He flapped out his arms, pretending they were ostrich wings, stuck out his bottom, and waddled around, bobbing his head in a gifted impression of Lightfoot’s ostrichy gait.2017, Julie Berry, The Emperor’s Ostrich, New York, N.Y.: Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN, pages 259–260. From the entry ostrichy
• An ostrich farmer may sell to a feather merchant licensed under this Ordinance or may export from the Colony ostrich feathers obtained from domesticated ostriches kept by him.1926, Sir Jacob William Barth, Robert William Lyall Grant, The Laws of Kenya, page 1191. From the entry feather merchant
• There are all kinds of game in the valley, and you are unlucky if you do not see a giraffe or an ostrich, or at least a herd of buck.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 265-266. From the entry buck

Meaning of ostrich

1. noun A large flightless bird of the order Struthioniformes.
2. noun The most widespread species of that order, known as the common ostrich (Struthio camelus).
3. noun The rhea.

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How do you use ostrich in a sentence?

Ostrich is used as a noun. For example: “His fortunes have been going south ever since he was tricked into investing in that ostrich farm.”

What is a short sentence with ostrich?

“Ostriches are the tallest living birds.”

What does ostrich mean?

Ostrich means a large flightless bird of the order Struthioniformes.