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Meaning of "ratite" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RATITE

From Latin ratis raft.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RATITE

ratite  [ˈrætaɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RATITE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ratite can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES RATITE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

ratite

Ratite

A ratite is any of a diverse group of large, flightless birds of the superorder Palaeognathae. There is still some controversy regarding the systematics involved. Some sources state that ratites are synonymous with Struthioniformes, while other sources state that the order Struthioniformes contains only the ostrich and possibly extinct elephant birds. Ratites belong to the modern bird superorder Palaeognathae which consists of ratites and flighted Neotropic tinamous. Unlike other flightless birds, the ratites have no keel on their sternum – hence the name from the Latin ratis. Without this to anchor their wing muscles, they could not fly even if they were to develop suitable wings. Recent research has indicated that ratites are a paraphyletic group; tinamous nest within them, and are the sister group of the extinct moa. This implies that flightlessness is a trait that evolved independently multiple times in different ratite lineages. Most parts of the former supercontinent Gondwana have ratites, or did have until the fairly recent past.

Definition of ratite in the English dictionary

The first definition of ratite in the dictionary is having a breastbone that lacks a keel for the attachment of flight muscles. Other definition of ratite is of or denoting the flightless birds, formerly classified as a group, that have a flat breastbone, feathers lacking vanes, and reduced wings. Ratite is also a bird, such as an ostrich, kiwi, or rhea, that belongs to this group; a flightless bird.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RATITE


airtight
ˈɛəˌtaɪt
apatite
ˈæpəˌtaɪt
appetite
ˈæpɪˌtaɪt
hematite
ˈhɛmətaɪt
hepatite
ˈhɛpəˌtaɪt
Hittite
ˈhɪtaɪt
magnetite
ˈmæɡnɪˌtaɪt
partite
ˈpɑːtaɪt
skintight
ˈskɪnˈtaɪt
smectite
ˈsmɛktaɪt
stalactite
ˈstæləkˌtaɪt
steatite
ˈstɪəˌtaɪt
supertight
ˌsuːpərˈtaɪt
tektite
ˈtɛktaɪt
tight
taɪt
tite
taɪt
transvestite
trænzˈvɛstaɪt
tripartite
traɪˈpɑːtaɪt
uptight
ʌpˈtaɪt
watertight
ˈwɔːtəˌtaɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RATITE

rationale
rationalisable
rationalise
rationaliser
rationalism
rationalist
rationalistic
rationalistically
rationalities
rationality
rationalizable
rationalization
rationalize
rationalizer
rationally
rationalness
rationing
rations
Ratisbon
ratlike

WORDS THAT END LIKE RATITE

biotite
bipartite
carbonatite
enstatite
fluorapatite
goniatite
haematite
hydroxyapatite
hydroxylapatite
micropegmatite
migmatite
multipartite
pegmatite
peridotite
petite
pyrrhotite
quadripartite
spessartite
syntagmatite
zaratite

Synonyms and antonyms of ratite in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ratite» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RATITE

Find out the translation of ratite to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ratite from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ratite» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

平胸
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ratite
570 millions of speakers

English

ratite
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कैसोवरी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ratite على
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бескилевых
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ratites
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রতিতে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ratites
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ratite
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Laufvögeln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

走鳥類
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

ratite
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ratite
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ratite
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பறக்க முடியாத பறவைகளின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रटाइट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

karinasız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ratiti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezgrzebieniowych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безкілевих
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ratite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στρουθιονίδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ratite
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ratiter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Strutsefugler
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ratite

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RATITE»

The term «ratite» is regularly used and occupies the 104.848 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RATITE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ratite» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ratite» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ratite

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RATITE»

Discover the use of ratite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ratite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Ratite encyclopedia: ostrich, emu, rhea
THE RATITE ENCYCLOPEDIA is the only comprehensive guide for the ratite farmer. Each chapter is a stand-alone article on a single subject, written by the top experts from four continents especially for this indispensable reference tool.
Claire Drenowatz, 1995
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Australian Standard for the Hygienic Production of Ratite ...
The whole dressed body of a slaughtered ratite (the skeleton and attached musculature) excluding any part that has been severed or removed from the dressed body (eg. head, skin, feathers, viscera, blood). Any tissue or structure removed ...
Csiro, 2001
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Panbiogeography : Tracking the History of Life: Tracking the ...
Case Study: Ratite Birds and the Southern Seeches Discussion of the disjunct distributions of the ratite birds and the southern beeches (Nothofagus) has dominated Southern Hemisphere biogeography for several generations. Neither group ...
Robin C. Craw, John R. Grehan, Michael J. Heads, 1999
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Animal Production and Animal Science Worldwide
Int. Ratite Symp. and 12th World Ostrich Cong., 14-16th October 2005. Ed: Carbajo, E., Madrid, Spain, pp. 73-80. Brand, T.S., Gous, R.M., Kruger, A., Aucamp, B.B., Brand, Z. 2005f. The effect of dietary energy and protein (amino acid) on the ...
A. Rosati, A. Tewolde, C. Mosconi, 2007
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Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia
Ratite Management, Medicine, and Surgery. Malabar, FL: Kreiger Publishing, 1996:79-94. 6. Cullen LK, Goerke MA, Swan RA, et al. Ostrich anaesthesia: xylazine premedication followed by alphaxalone/alphadolone and isoflurane. Aust Vet J ...
Gary West, Darryl Heard, Nigel Caulkett, 2013
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Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Yet farmers, ranchers and hobbyists living on a few acres are paying fantastic prices for them, as well as for emus and rheas, two other large, flightless birds that belong to the ratite family. A pair of breeding ostriches or emus fetches anywhere ...
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The Welfare of Farmed Ratites
Progress is being made towards meeting the five freedoms in intensive ratite production (Glatz and Miao 2008). In Europe, a project (LayWel 2006) developed a series of welfare assessment protocols for poultry. However, no such protocols  ...
Phil Glatz, Christine Lunam, Irek Malecki, 2011
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
R452] BT Animal industry Ratite ranches USE Ratite farms Ratite ranching _ USE Ratite farming _ Ratites (May Subd Geog) UF Palaeognathae Ratitae [Former heading] BT Birds NT Casuariiforrnes Kiwis Moas Ostriches Rheiformes Ratkey ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2005
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Ratite
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A ratite is any of a diverse group of large, flightless birds of Gondwanan origin, most of them now extinct.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand
(opposite page) Two recent hypotheses of ratite relationships. The relationship shown here from Lee et al. (1997) was based on morphology for ratites, including moa, but was the same when a total- evidence solution was attempted in which ...
T. H. Worthy, Richard N. Holdaway, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RATITE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ratite is used in the context of the following news items.
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Analysis of Kiwi Genome Provides Clues to Nocturnal Adaptation
Their research established that flightless birds evolved much later in some ratite species than was previously understood. The kiwi broke off from the elephant ... «GenomeWeb, Jul 15»
2
Hallan un nuevo huevo fósil de 'ratite' en los yacimientos …
Igualmente, detalló que además de este nuevo huevo fósil entero, ha aparecido medio huevo fósil de ratite en una zona que no se ha excavado de Fuente de ... «Canarias 7, Sep 14»
3
Highland Meat Market and Deli opens
It is a retail outlet for the Midwest Poultry and Ratite Processors (MPRP), LLC, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) processing plant that recently opened in ... «Agri-View, Jul 14»
4
Pandion / Globus Kalendar – A Global Nature Based Calendar
For example, the two red mensis of Ratite & Giraffa would represent summer; the orange mensis of Panthera would then be the transition to autumn, and the ... «Patheos, Jul 14»
5
The Tiny Kiwi Bird's Colossal Cousin
What they had expected to find were similarities between the elephant bird and another member of the 'Ratite,' or 'flightless bird' family, the ostrich. Their hunch ... «DOGOnews, Jun 14»
6
Tiny Kiwi and Giant Elephant Bird Are Close Cousins
The largest species of flightless birds alive today are called the ratites, and include the ostrich, emu and rhea. These birds' ancestors were once even larger, ... «Scientific American, May 14»
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New Zealand's small kiwi is related to Madagascar's extinct nine-foot …
Ratites are scattered around southern continents like in the case of South American rheas and African ostriches. Scientists used to believe that the birds have ... «Tech Times, May 14»
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Ratites in trees: the evolution of ostriches and kin, and the repeated …
Regular Tet Zoo readers will recall the article from March on ratite and tinamou evolution. Ratites, just in case you don't know, are the flightless kiwi, ostriches, ... «Scientific American, May 14»
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Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and …
Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution. Kieren J. Mitchell,; Bastien Llamas,; Julien Soubrier,; Nicolas J. «Science Careers Blog, May 14»
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Evolution Made Ridiculous Flightless Birds Over and Over
The ratites are a group of birds that includes the ostrich and emu, as well as the kiwi, rhea (like a smaller, South American ostrich), and cassowary (with a bright ... «Discover Magazine, May 14»

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