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a ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus: recent and extinct rheas

a ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus: recent and extinct rheas

Members of the Rheiformes, a South American order of large, long-necked, long-legged, flightless birds, sometimes called American ostriches, though in a separate order from true OSTRICHES.