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Raptores — noun term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes • Syn: ↑order Raptores • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves * * * I … Useful english dictionary
Raptores — Rap*to res (r[a^]p*t[=o] r[=e]z), n. pl. [NL. See {Raptor}.] (Zo[ o]l.) An order of birds, same as {Accipitres}. Called also {Raptatores}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
animal order — noun the order of animals • Hypernyms: ↑order • Hyponyms: ↑Eubacteriales, ↑order Eubacteriales, ↑Pseudomonadales, ↑order Pseudomonadales, ↑Rickettsiales, ↑order … Useful english dictionary
Aves — noun (ornithology) the class of birds • Syn: ↑class Aves • Topics: ↑ornithology • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑Vertebrata, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
class Aves — noun (ornithology) the class of birds • Syn: ↑Aves • Topics: ↑ornithology • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑Vertebrata, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Raptatores — Raptores Rap*to res (r[a^]p*t[=o] r[=e]z), n. pl. [NL. See {Raptor}.] (Zo[ o]l.) An order of birds, same as {Accipitres}. Called also {Raptatores}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Ecclesiastical Censures — Ecclesiastical Censures † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Censures Medicinal and spiritual punishments imposed by the Church on a baptized, delinquent, and contumacious person, by which he is deprived, either wholly of in part … Catholic encyclopedia
raptor — noun Etymology: New Latin Raptores, former order name, from Latin, plural of raptor plunderer, from rapere Date: 1873 1. bird of prey 2. [New Latin raptor (as in velociraptor)] a usually small to medium sized predatory dinosaur (as a velociraptor … New Collegiate Dictionary
raptorial — /rap tawr ee euhl, tohr /, adj. 1. preying upon other animals; predatory. 2. adapted for seizing prey, as the bill or claws of a bird. 3. belonging or pertaining to the Raptores, a former order in which the falconiform and strigiform birds were… … Universalium
