rhea
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- noun
- /ˈriːə/
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rhea
- Many tourists visit Argentina to see the striking rhea, a bird that resembles a smaller ostrich.
Examples
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The birds Habib (2008) chose to use ranged from the flightless rhea and penguin to the ultra-soaring albatross.
Blog text (18) -
At the last cage, a scraggly tall emu and a rhea are snapping at the wires of the fencing with a doleful, soft, leathery clack of their bills.
Fiction book (1990) -
The rhea is a large, flightless bird that can run swiftly across the plains of South America.
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In South America, the rhea, with its three toes, is often found roaming in open grasslands.
Synonyms
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A large flightless bird from South America like a small ostrich with three toes
A large South American bird like an ostrich that runs fast, cannot fly, and has three toes
Compounds
- Specialized
A group of large, tall, flightless South American birds like small ostriches
A large South American bird like an ostrich that runs fast, cannot fly, and has three toes
How Heavy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rhea comes from the Greek name Rhea, who was called the 'mother of the gods', and a helpful way to remember it is to imagine a large, motherly bird named after a goddess. That's why a rhea today is the name for a big, fast, flightless bird from South America.