ostrich : Idioms & Phrases

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Ostrich farm

  • a farm on which ostriches are bred for the sake of their feathers, oil, eggs, etc.
Webster 1913

Ostrich farming

  • the occupation of breeding ostriches for the sake of their feathers, etc.
Webster 1913

Ostrich fern

  • noun tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
    Onoclea struthiopteris; shuttlecock fern; Pteretis struthiopteris; Matteuccia struthiopteris; fiddlehead.
WordNet
  • (Bot.) a kind of fern (Onoclea Struthiopteris), the tall fronds of which grow in a circle from the rootstock. It is found in alluvial soil in Europe and North America.
Webster 1913