family struthionidae

English Thesaurus

1. tall terrestrial birds: ostriches (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bird family,
definition	:	a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus struthio, struthio,
definition	:	type genus of the Struthionidae: African ostriches (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	order struthioniformes, struthioniformes,
definition	:	a ratite bird order: ostriches and related extinct birds; known from the Pleistocene onward (noun.animal)