arabian ostrich
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.93 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An extinct subspecies of ostrich, †Struthio camelus syriacus, that lived on the Arabian Peninsula.
Example Sentences
- "Distinguished by its comparatively small size, the apparently extinct Arabian ostrich was fairly common until the time of World War I but as firearms became more plentiful in Arabia and it became possible to pursue birds in automobiles, numbers rapidly declined."