- anseriform bird
- nounchiefly web-footed swimming birds• Hypernyms: ↑waterfowl, ↑water bird, ↑waterbird• Member Holonyms: ↑Anseriformes, ↑order Anseriformes
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anseriform — ▪ bird order Introduction any of the 150 species comprising the bird order Anseriformes, which comprises the ducks (duck), geese (goose), and swans (swan) (family Anatidae) and the screamers (the three species of family Anhimidae). Anatidae… … Universalium
Bird ichnology — is the study of avian life traces in ornithology and paleontology. Such life traces can include footprints, nests, feces and coproliths. Scientists gain insight about the behavior and diversity of birds by studying such evidence.Ichnofossils (or… … Wikipedia
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
water bird — noun freshwater aquatic bird • Syn: ↑waterfowl, ↑waterbird • Hypernyms: ↑aquatic bird • Hyponyms: ↑anseriform bird, ↑screamer * * * noun … Useful english dictionary
Presbyornis — Taxobox name = Presbyornis status = fossil fossil range = Late Paleocene ? Early Oligocene regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Anseriformes familia = Presbyornithidae genus = Presbyornis genus authority = Wetmore, 1926… … Wikipedia
waterbird — noun freshwater aquatic bird • Syn: ↑waterfowl, ↑water bird • Hypernyms: ↑aquatic bird • Hyponyms: ↑anseriform bird, ↑screamer … Useful english dictionary
Barawertornis — Taxobox name = Barawertornis status = fossil fossil range = Late Oligocene Early Miocene regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves subclassis = Neornithes infraclassis = Galloanserae ordo = Anseriformes familia = †Dromornithidae genus =… … Wikipedia
Anseriformes — noun ducks; geese; swans; screamers • Syn: ↑order Anseriformes • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves • Member Meronyms … Useful english dictionary
order Anseriformes — noun ducks; geese; swans; screamers • Syn: ↑Anseriformes • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves • Member Meronyms … Useful english dictionary
