STRUTHIONES

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches.

2.
n.

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.