AVES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aves mean? 

• AVES (noun)
  The noun AVES has 1 sense:

1. (ornithology) the class of birds

  Familiarity information: AVES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(ornithology) the class of birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Aves; class Aves

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Aves"):

Cuculiformes; order Cuculiformes (cuckoos; touracos; etc.)

order Psittaciformes; Psittaciformes (an order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets)

Coraciiformes; order Coraciiformes (rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies)

order Picariae; Picariae (term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes)

Apodiformes; order Apodiformes (swifts; hummingbirds)

Caprimulgiformes; order Caprimulgiformes (goatsuckers; frogmouths; oilbirds)

order Piciformes; Piciformes (woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans)

order Trogoniformes; Trogoniformes (trogons)

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

Ciconiiformes; order Ciconiiformes (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)

Gruiformes; order Gruiformes (inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards)

Charadriiformes; order Charadriiformes (large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on anima life)

Gaviiformes; order Gaviiformes (large aquatic birds: loons and some extinct forms)

Colymbiformes; order Colymbiformes; order Podicipediformes; order Podicipitiformes; Podicipediformes; Podicipitiformes (grebes)

order Pelecaniformes; Pelecaniformes (pelicans; frigate birds; gannets; cormorants)

order Sphenisciformes; Sphenisciformes (penguins)

order Procellariiformes; Procellariiformes (petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels)

Aepyorniformes; order Aepyorniformes (huge extinct flightless birds: elephant birds)

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

genus Protoavis (extinct primitive birds of the Triassic period; 70 million years before archaeopteryx)

Archaeornithes; subclass Archaeornithes (primitive reptile-like fossil birds of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous)

Ratitae; superorder Ratitae (used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders)

order Struthioniformes; Struthioniformes (a ratite bird order: ostriches and related extinct birds; known from the Pleistocene onward)

Casuariiformes; order Casuariiformes (a ratite bird order: cassowaries and emus)

Apterygiformes; order Apterygiformes (a ratite bird order: flightless ground birds having vestigial wings and long bills and small eyes: kiwis)

order Rheiformes; Rheiformes (a ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus: recent and extinct rheas)

Columbiformes; order Columbiformes (sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires)

Dinornithiformes; order Dinornithiformes (a ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand)

Insessores; order Insessores; percher; perching bird (a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists)

order Passeriformes; Passeriformes (largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres)

order Raptores; Raptores (term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes)

Falconiformes; order Falconiformes (chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe: falcons; hawks; eagles; ospreys; caracaras; vultures)

young bird (a bird that is still young)

order Strigiformes; Strigiformes (owls)

Galliformes; order Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins)

Domain category:

ornithology (the branch of zoology that studies birds)

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

Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)

 Context examples 

Item, that upon brother Ambrose reproving him for this blasphemous wish, he did hold the said brother face downwards over the piscatorium or fish-pond for a space during which the said brother was able to repeat a pater and four aves for the better fortifying of his soul against impending death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One thousand Aves and as many Credos, said standing with arms outstretched before the shrine of the Virgin, may help thee to remember that the Creator hath given us two ears and but one mouth, as a token that there is twice the work for the one as for the other.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)