noun🔗ShareRatitesA bird of the order of Struthioniformes, a diverse group of large running, flightless birds, mostly extinct, but including the cassowary, elephant bird, emu, kiwi, moa, ostrich, rhea and tinamou"At the zoo, we saw the ostrich and the emu, learning that these large, flightless birds are both types of ratites. "En el zoológico, vimos el avestruz y el emú, aprendiendo que estas aves grandes y no voladoras son ambas tipos de ratites.birdanimalbiologynatureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading