- suborder Eurylaimi
- nounbroadbills• Syn: ↑Eurylaimi• Hypernyms: ↑animal order• Member Holonyms: ↑Passeriformes, ↑order Passeriformes• Member Meronyms: ↑Eurylaimidae, ↑family Eurylaimidae
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suborder Eurylaimi
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Eurylaimi — noun broadbills • Syn: ↑suborder Eurylaimi • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Passeriformes, ↑order Passeriformes • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Passeriformes — noun largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres • Syn: ↑order… … Useful english dictionary
animal order — noun the order of animals • Hypernyms: ↑order • Hyponyms: ↑Eubacteriales, ↑order Eubacteriales, ↑Pseudomonadales, ↑order Pseudomonadales, ↑Rickettsiales, ↑order … Useful english dictionary
order Passeriformes — noun largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres • Syn: ↑Passeriformes • … Useful english dictionary
Eurylaimidae — noun coextensive with the suborder Eurylaimi • Syn: ↑family Eurylaimidae • Hypernyms: ↑bird family • Member Holonyms: ↑Eurylaimi, ↑suborder Eurylaimi • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
family Eurylaimidae — noun coextensive with the suborder Eurylaimi • Syn: ↑Eurylaimidae • Hypernyms: ↑bird family • Member Holonyms: ↑Eurylaimi, ↑suborder Eurylaimi • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Philepittidae — ▪ bird family bird family, order Passeriformes, consisting of the asities and false sunbirds, four species of small birds confined to the forests of Madagascar. Members range in size from 9 to 16.5 centimetres (3.5 to 6.5 inches) long … Universalium
broadbill — /brawd bil /, n. 1. any of several small, often brightly colored passerine birds of the family Eurylaimidae, of the Old World tropics, having a broad, flattened bill. 2. any of various birds with a broad bill, as the scaup duck, shoveler, and… … Universalium
suboscine — /sub os in, uyn/, Ornith. adj. 1. of or pertaining to birds of the suborder Suboscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising the supposedly more primitive members of the order, with less well developed vocal organs than the oscine birds. n. 2.… … Universalium
passerine — /pas euhr in, euh ruyn , euh reen /, adj. 1. of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching. 2. oscine (def. 1). n. 3. any bird of the order… … Universalium
