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COLUMBIFORMES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires
Synonyms:
Columbiformes; order Columbiformes
Classified under:
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)