| NOUN | person | ostrich | a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides / hides from danger by burying its head in the sand) |
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| animal | ostrich, Struthio camelus | fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet |
| Sounds | ao'strihch | |
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| Rhymes | backstitch ... witch: 27 rhymes with ihch... | |
| Meaning | A person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides / hides from danger by burying its head in the sand). | |
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| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
| Meaning | fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird. | |
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| Synonym | Struthio camelus | |
| Member of | Struthio, genus Struthio | type genus of the Struthionidae |
| Broader | ratite, ratite bird, flightless bird | Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment / attachment of flight muscles |
| Spanish | avestruz, struthio camelus | |
| Catalan | estruç, struthio camelus, Struthio camelus | |
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