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ostrich::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | struthio camelus |
| Type of | flightless bird, ratite, ratite bird |
Examples of ostrich
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My partner opted for zaffrani ostrich, marinated with saffron and ground spices.
From the newsshopper.co.uk
The fruit salsa is for pork, wildberry for camel and ostrich, and mint for lamb.
From the theaustralian.com.au
A lion doesn't break into a race walk when its tracking down some gawky ostrich.
From the timesunion.com
Can Tre live up to the early promise of his ostrich fillet with crunchy abalone?
From the signonsandiego.com
Carved giraffe bones and painted ostrich eggs decorate the mantel and sideboard.
From the bostonherald.com
He painted on fans and carriage doors, snuffboxes, escritoires and ostrich eggs.
From the time.com
Elsewhere roaming freely on the grounds are emus, an ostrich, elands and a camel.
From the bloomberg.com
Utterly unsupervised, we rolled up to zebra, monkeys, Cape buffalo and ostrich.
From the sfgate.com
The ostrich tastes beefy with a finish that is slightly gamey, but pleasantly so.
From the ocregister.com
- A person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)
- Fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird
- The Ostrich, Struthio camelus, is a large flightless bird native to Africa. It is the only living species of its family, Struthionidae and its genus, Struthio. Ostriches share the order Struthioniformes with the kiwis, emus, and other ratites. ...
- Ostrich is a journal of African ornithology published by BirdLife South Africa, formerly the South African Ornithological Society, in association with the National Information Services Corporation (NISC). ...
- To dream of an ostrich, denotes that you will secretly amass wealth, but at the same time maintain degrading intrigues with women. To catch one, your resources will enable you to enjoy travel and extensive knowledge.
- Still occasionally found in the southeastern deserts of Palestine, the ostrich, if we are to judge from the many mentions made of it, was well known among the Hebrews, The beauty of its plumage, its fleetness, its reputed stupidity, its leaving its eggs on the sand and hatching them by the sun's ...
- Large flightless bird, in Assyrian times native to the arid regions of the Middle East where it is today extinct. The Assyrians used the shells of its eggs to create luxury vessels or ground them up for medicinal purposes; they also ate its meat. ...
- Is the common name for a very large, fast-running, flightless, ratite bird, (Struthio camelus), native to Africa (and formerly the Middle East), characterized by long neck and legs, and two toes on each foot, with the nail of the larger inner toe resembling a hoof and the outer toe lacking a ...
- (Lam 4:3), the rendering of Hebrew pl. enim; so called from its greediness and gluttony. The allusion here is to the habit of the ostrich with reference to its eggs, which is thus described: "The outer layer of eggs is generally so ill covered that they are destroyed in quantities by jackals, ...
