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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
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
Aegialornis — Taxobox name = Aegialornis status = fossil fossil range = Early? Late Eocene regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Apodiformes familia = Aegialornithidae familia authority = Lydekker, 1891 genus = Aegialornis genus authority … Wikipedia
Primapus — Taxobox name = Primapus image width = image caption = fossil range=Early Eocene regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves subclassis = Neornithes infraclassis = Neoaves unranked ordo = Cypselomorphae ordo = Apodiformes genus= Primapus… … Wikipedia
Apodiformes — noun swifts; hummingbirds • Syn: ↑order Apodiformes • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
crested swift — noun birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees • Syn: ↑tree swift • Hypernyms: ↑apodiform bird • Member Holonyms: ↑Hemiprocnidae, ↑family Hemiprocnidae … Useful english dictionary
order Apodiformes — noun swifts; hummingbirds • Syn: ↑Apodiformes • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
tree swift — noun birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees • Syn: ↑crested swift • Hypernyms: ↑apodiform bird • Member Holonyms: ↑Hemiprocnidae, ↑family Hemiprocnidae * * * … Useful english dictionary
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
