- caprimulgiform bird
- nounlong-winged nonpasserine birds• Hypernyms: ↑bird• Hyponyms:• Member Holonyms: ↑Caprimulgiformes, ↑order Caprimulgiformes
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caprimulgiform — ▪ order of birds Introduction also called nightjars any of about 120 species of soft plumaged birds (bird), the major groups of which are called nightjars (nightjar), nighthawks (nighthawk), potoos (potoo), frogmouths (frogmouth), and owlet… … Universalium
bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 … Universalium
Bird — /berrd/, n. Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player. * * * I Any of the warm blooded, beaked vertebrates of the class Aves, including more than 9,600 living species. A covering of feathers distinguishes birds from all other animals. Birds have a … Universalium
oilbird — noun nocturnal fruit eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter • Syn: ↑guacharo, ↑Steatornis caripensis • Hypernyms: ↑caprimulgiform bird • Member Holonyms: ↑Steatornis, ↑genus St … Useful english dictionary
Steatornis caripensis — noun nocturnal fruit eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter • Syn: ↑oilbird, ↑guacharo • Hypernyms: ↑caprimulgiform bird • Member Holonyms: ↑Steatornis, ↑genus Steatornis … Useful english dictionary
caprimulgid — noun mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects • Syn: ↑goatsucker, ↑nightjar • Hypernyms: ↑caprimulgiform bird • Hyponyms: ↑European goatsucker, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Caprimulgiformes — noun goatsuckers; frogmouths; oilbirds • Syn: ↑order Caprimulgiformes • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves • Member Meronyms … Useful english dictionary
order Caprimulgiformes — noun goatsuckers; frogmouths; oilbirds • Syn: ↑Caprimulgiformes • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves • Member Meronyms … Useful english dictionary
apodiform — ▪ bird Introduction any member of one of two groups of birds (bird), the swifts (swift) and the hummingbirds (hummingbird), that are very different from one another in general appearance and way of life. The two groups, considered suborders,… … Universalium
List of fossil birds — Birds are generally believed to have evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and dinosaurs, except of course that some of the former survived the Cretaceous Tertiary extinction event… … Wikipedia
