CURSORIUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cursorius mean? 

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

1. coursers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURSORIUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coursers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cursorius; genus Cursorius

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

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Cursorius"):

cream-colored courser; Cursorius cursor (courser of desert and semidesert regions of the Old World)

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

family Glareolidae; Glareolidae (Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers)