Sentence examples for Struthio camelus from inspiring English sources

Ostrich (Struthio camelus), flightless bird found only in open country of Africa.

The Syrian ostrich (Struthio camelus syriacus), which was once abundant in the sand deserts, has been extinct in Arabia since the early 1940s.

Ostrich populations differing slightly in skin colour, size, and egg features formerly were considered separate species, but now they are considered to be merely races of Struthio camelus.

The legs and feet, along with its toothless beak and long neck, provide a superficial resemblance to the living ostrich (Struthio camelus).

To Nixon, writing about the ostrich involves much more than setting the record straight about a bird so puzzling to early naturalists that it was classified as Struthio camelus, the sparrow camel.

The structure of the vaned type of pecten of the ostrich, Struthio camelus was investigated with light and electron microscope.

The Arabian camel, Camelus dromedarius, has one hump, the Bactrian camel, Camelus bactrianus, has two.

The genera Camelus and Lama diverged 11 million years ago.

Most familiar is the North African ostrich, S. camelus camelus, ranging, in much-reduced numbers, from Morocco to Sudan.

The ostrich is the only living species in the genus Struthio.

The term camel usually applies to two species of the genus Camelus.