Word Meanings - STRUTHIO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of birds including the African ostriches.

Related words: (words related to STRUTHIO)

• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• AFRICANIZE
  To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• AFRICAN
  Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant . -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished
• AFRICANDER
  One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• BIRDSEED
  Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent.