RAPTORES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Raptores mean? 

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

1. term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAPTORES (noun)

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 ("Raptores" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

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

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