- cuculiform bird
- nounbirds having zygodactyl feet (except for the touracos)• Hypernyms: ↑bird• Member Holonyms: ↑Cuculiformes, ↑order Cuculiformes
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cuculiform — ▪ bird order Introduction any member of a cosmopolitan group of birds (bird) containing two very distinct families, the cuckoos (cuckoo) (Cuculidae) and the hoatzin (Opisthocomidae). Family Cuculidae is the much larger group, containing about… … 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
Foro (bird) — Taxobox name = Foro status = fossil fossil range = Early Eocene (Ypresian Lutetian) regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves subclassis = Neornithes infraclassis = Neoaves ordo = see text familia = Foratidae (disputed) familia authority … Wikipedia
turacou — noun large brightly crested bird of Africa • Syn: ↑touraco, ↑turaco, ↑turakoo • Hypernyms: ↑cuculiform bird • Member Holonyms: ↑Musophagidae, ↑family Musophagidae … Useful english dictionary
turakoo — noun large brightly crested bird of Africa • Syn: ↑touraco, ↑turaco, ↑turacou • Hypernyms: ↑cuculiform bird • Member Holonyms: ↑Musophagidae, ↑family Musophagidae … Useful english dictionary
Cuculiformes — noun cuckoos; touracos; etc. • Syn: ↑order Cuculiformes • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
order Cuculiformes — noun cuckoos; touracos; etc. • Syn: ↑Cuculiformes • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
psittaciform — ▪ bird Introduction any member of the group of more than 360 species of generally brightly coloured, noisy birds, to which the general name parrot may be applied. All belong to just two families. In the family Psittacidae are parakeets… … 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
