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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds
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