Arabian ostrich

English

Noun

Arabian ostrich (plural Arabian ostriches)

1. (now historical) An extinct subspecies of ostrich, †Struthio camelus syriacus, that lived on the Arabian Peninsula.
   • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 32:

     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.