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OSTRICH

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Dictionary entry overview: What does ostrich mean?

• OSTRICH (noun)
The noun OSTRICH has 2 senses:

1. 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)
2. fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird

Familiarity information: OSTRICH used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• OSTRICH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ostrich" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Struthio camelus; ostrich

Hypernyms ("ostrich" is a kind of...):

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)

Holonyms ("ostrich" is a member of...):

genus Struthio; Struthio (type genus of the Struthionidae: African ostriches)

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