ratite

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Adj — Relating to flightless, fast-running birds whose breastbones lack a keel, in contrast to carinate birds.

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Etymology

From Latin ratis (“raft”) + -ite; ratites (unlike other birds) lack a keel on their sternum, and rafts are vessels that lack keels.