CORACIIFORMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Coraciiformes mean? 

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

1. rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORACIIFORMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Coraciiformes; order Coraciiformes

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Coraciiformes"):

coraciiform bird (chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes)

Coraciidae; family Coraciidae (rollers)

Alcedinidae; family Alcedinidae (kingfishers)

family Meropidae; Meropidae (bee-eaters)

Bucerotidae; family Bucerotidae (hornbills)

family Upupidae; Upupidae (hoopoes)

family Phoeniculidae; Phoeniculidae (wood hoopoes)

family Momotidae; Momotidae; family Todidae; Todidae (a family of birds of the order Coraciiformes)

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

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