GRUIFORMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gruiformes mean? 

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

1. inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRUIFORMES (noun)

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Meaning:

Inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Gruiformes; order Gruiformes

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Gruiformes"):

family Gruidae; Gruidae (cranes)

Aramus; genus Aramus (genus of large brown long-billed wading birds found in warm swampy regions of the western hemisphere: courlan; limpkin)

Aramus guarauna; courlan (wading bird of South America and Central America)

Aramus pictus; limpkin (wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call)

Cariamidae; family Cariamidae (crane-like South American wading birds)

family Rallidae; Rallidae (rails; crakes; gallinules; coots)

Otides; suborder Otides (terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia: bustards)

family Otididae; Otididae (bustards)

family Turnicidae; Turnicidae (small Old World birds resembling but not related to true quail)

family Psophiidae; Psophiidae (trumpeters)

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

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