flightless bird

Questions about flightless bird

What does flightless bird mean?

flightless bird means "flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds".

What is another word for flightless bird?

Close synonyms include ratite, ratite bird. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flightless bird a common word?

flightless bird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.