Other forms: ostriches
An ostrich is the tallest bird, which runs instead of flying. An ostrich egg, ostrich farming, the ostrich ran.
It runs at seventy kilometres an hour and kicks forward hard enough to kill a lion. The story about burying its head in sand is false — it lowers its head to the nest, which looks like that from a distance. Its eye is bigger than its brain.
1nounostrichThe tallest bird, which runs instead of flying.
“The ostrich lays the largest eggs of any living bird.”
ostrich is a bird.
Old French ostruce comes from Latin avis struthio, from Greek strouthion, the name of the bird.
Ancient Greek
στρουθίων
Vulgar Latin
*austruthio
Old French
ostruce
Anglo-Norman
ostrige
Middle English
ostrich
English, today
ostrich
Built from
From Middle English ostrich, ostriche, ostryche, ostrige, borrowed from Anglo-Norman ostrige and Old French ostruce, from Vulgar Latin austruthio, from Latin - avis (“bird”) + strūthiō (“ostrich”), from Ancient Greek στρουθίων, or shortened from strūthiocamēlus, from Ancient Greek στρουθοκᾰ́μηλος, from στρουθός (“sparrow”) + κάμηλος (“camel”). Compare Spanish avestruz and Portuguese avestruz.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA