Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pterocnemia_pennata

1 sense of pterocnemia pennata

Sense 1
rhea, nandu, Pterocnemia pennata -- (smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan)
       => ratite, ratite bird, flightless bird -- (flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds)