CICONIIFORMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ciconiiformes mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CICONIIFORMES (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ciconiiformes; order Ciconiiformes

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("Ciconiiformes" is a member of...):

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