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ORDER CICONIIFORMES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises
Synonyms:
Ciconiiformes; order Ciconiiformes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("order Ciconiiformes" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "order Ciconiiformes"):
Ciconiidae; family Ciconiidae (storks)
Balaenicipitidae; family Balaenicipitidae (shoebills)
family Ibidiidae; family Threskiornithidae; Threskiornithidae (ibises)
family Plataleidae; Plataleidae (spoonbills)
family Phoenicopteridae; Phoenicopteridae (flamingos)
Ardeidae; family Ardeidae (herons; egrets; night herons; bitterns)
Holonyms ("order Ciconiiformes" is a member of...):
Aves; class Aves ((ornithology) the class of birds)
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