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COLUMBIFORMES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires

Synonyms:

Columbiformes; order Columbiformes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Columbiformes" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Columbiformes"):

columbiform bird (a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes)

family Raphidae; Raphidae (extinct dodos and solitaires)

Columbidae; family Columbidae (doves and pigeons)

family Pteroclididae; Pteroclididae (sandgrouses)

Holonyms ("Columbiformes" is a member of...):

Aves; class Aves ((ornithology) the class of birds)

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