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ANSERIFORM BIRD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Chiefly web-footed swimming birds

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("anseriform bird" is a kind of...):

water bird; waterbird; waterfowl (freshwater aquatic bird)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anseriform bird"):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

goose (web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks)

Holonyms ("anseriform bird" is a member of...):

Anseriformes; order Anseriformes (ducks; geese; swans; screamers)

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