Betekenis van:
ostrich

ostrich
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • grote Afrikaanse loopvogel
  • fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird

Synoniemen

Hyperoniemen

ostrich
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • 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)

    Hyperoniemen


    Voorbeeldzinnen

    1. He hides his head in the sand, like an ostrich.
    2. An ostrich does not fly through the air.
    3. The ostrich has wings, but it cannot fly.
    4. The pigeon and the ostrich are both birds; the one can fly and the other cannot.
    5. That's why ostrich meat costs more than twice as much as beef and pork.
    6. Poultry — chicken, geese, duck, turkey and Guinea fowl —, ostrich, pigeon
    7. initial test using Ostrich/Denmark/72420/96 (H5N2);
    8. Initial test using Ostrich/Denmark/72420/96 (H5N2)
    9. Poultry — chicken, geese, duck, turkey and Guinea fowl-, ostrich, pigeon
    10. Tyto alba (II) Barn owl Tyto soumagnei (I) Soumagne's owl STRUTHIONIFORMES Struthionidae Ostrich Struthio camelus (I) (Only the populations of Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, the Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and the Sudan; all other populations are not included in the Annexes to this Regulation) Ostrich TINAMIFORMES Tinamidae Tinamous