Crossword-Solution: OSTRICH 7 letters, 80 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Ostrich	n.	A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.

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OSTRICH	anagram	CHORIST, CHRISTO

We have 80 clues for the answer “OSTRICH”

Clue	Answers
FASTEST bird	1 answer
Its max speed is roughly 30 miles per hour	1 answer
Head hider	1 answer
HIGH-speed running bird	1 answer
Flightless bird with a powerful kick	1 answer
Flightless African ratite	1 answer
Figuratively, an ignorer of danger.	1 answer
Feign not to see.	1 answer
Fastest two-legged animal	1 answer
Fastest creature on two legs (up to 45 m.p.h.)	1 answer
LARGEST bird	1 answer
Does not stick head in ground	1 answer
Danger ducker	1 answer
Bird with a strong kick	1 answer
Bird that lays the largest egg of any animal	1 answer
Bird that lays the largest egg	1 answer
Bird that doesn't actually bury its head in the sand	1 answer
Bird that can run 40+ miles per hour	1 answer
Bird that can grow to be nine feet tall	1 answer
Bird burying its head in the sand	1 answer
SYRIAN bird	1 answer
large African bird that runs fast but cannot fly	1 answer
fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet	1 answer
Two-toed bird	1 answer
The only bird from which leather can be obtained	1 answer
Tallest living bird	1 answer
Swift-footed bird	1 answer
Source of material for a feather duster	1 answer
Seven-foot runner	1 answer
SYRIAN desert bird, former	1 answer
Bird of the African desert.	1 answer
Runner with big eggs	1 answer
Person refusing to face reality	1 answer
PLAINS bird	1 answer
PERSON who refuses to accept facts (fig.)	1 answer
Layer of 3-pound eggs	1 answer
Largest of existing birds	1 answer
Largest living bird	1 answer
Large running bird	1 answer
Biggest bird in the world	1 answer
Biggest bird	1 answer
AFRICAN flightless bird	1 answer
AFRICAN bird, largest	1 answer
AFRICAN game bird	2 answers
Domesticated bird	2 answers
Source of lean meat	2 answers
Serengeti sprinter	2 answers
One of the ratites	2 answers
Emu's cousin	2 answers
It'll never get off the ground	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RATEE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with OSTRICH (5)

Shortly after the nuptials, the Eagle said, “Fly off and bring me back the ostrich you promised me.” The Kite, soaring aloft into the air, brought back the shabbiest possible mouse, stinking from the length of time it had lain about the fields.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

The soldiers present arms; there is a low rumble of drums; the sumptuous great hearse approaches, drawn at a walk by eight black horses plumed with black bunches of nodding ostrich feathers; the coffin is borne into the church, the doors are closed.

What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants, was another distinction of the beautiful Jewess, scoffed and sneered at by the proud dames who sat above her, but secretly envied by those who affected to deride them.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

The little narrow, crooked town of Dover hid itself away from the beach, and ran its head into the chalk cliffs, like a marine ostrich.

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

Then, with his little white hat curled with an ostrich feather, and his white coat, he was a joy to her, the twining wisps of hair clustering round his head.

Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995

Quotes with OSTRICH (3)

I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn’t figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren’t so different after all.

Dora J. Arod I Had a Dream About You

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

Peter Kreeft Before I Go: Letters to Our Children about What Really Matters

Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental stomach - if you have such a thing - is strong as an ostrich's; the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation; close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting …

Charlotte Bronte

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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 52 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).