ostrich | | |
n. (person) | 1. ostrich | a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand). |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
n. (animal) | 2. ostrich, struthio camelus | fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird. |
| ~ flightless bird, ratite, ratite bird | flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds. |
| ~ genus struthio, struthio | type genus of the Struthionidae: African ostriches. |
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