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ORDER RAPTORES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does order Raptores mean?
• ORDER RAPTORES (noun)
The noun ORDER RAPTORES has 1 sense:
1. term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes
Familiarity information: ORDER RAPTORES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
order Raptores; Raptores
Hypernyms ("order Raptores" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Holonyms ("order Raptores" is a member of...):
Aves; class Aves ((ornithology) the class of birds)
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