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struthiform

struthiform adjective: resembling an ostrich.

Adjective

struthiform (comparative more struthiform, superlative most struthiform)

  1. Resembling an ostrich.
    • The Rhea ('South American ostrich') of eastern South America had no struthiform relations in Central or North America, but seems most nearly related to extinct Eocene struthious birds once inhabiting Egypt; while it is also a distant relation of the Ostrich and still more distantly of the...1918 July, “African and South America”, in The Nineteenth Century and After, volume LXXXIV, number CCCCXCVII, London: Nineteenth Century & After Ltd, page 185

Forms of struthiform

comparativemore struthiform
superlativemost struthiform
alternative formstruthiiform

Origin of struthiform

From New Latin strūthiō (“ostrich”) + -form.

Questions about struthiform

What does struthiform mean?
Struthiform means resembling an ostrich.
What part of speech is struthiform?
Struthiform is an adjective.

Words near struthiform in the dictionary

  1. struses
  2. strut
  3. strut one's stuff
  4. struth
  5. struthian
  6. struthiform
  7. struthiiform
  8. struthioid
  9. struthiolariid
  10. struthiolariids
  11. struthionid

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