ORDER COLUMBIFORMES

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires

Synonyms:

Columbiformes; order Columbiformes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order 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 ("order Columbiformes" is a member of...):

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