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cuculiform — ▪ bird order Introduction any member of a cosmopolitan group of birds (bird) containing two very distinct families, the cuckoos (cuckoo) (Cuculidae) and the hoatzin (Opisthocomidae). Family Cuculidae is the much larger group, containing about… … Universalium
cuculiform — cu·cu·li·form … English syllables
cuculiform — /kjəˈkjuləfɔm/ (say kyuh kyoohluhfawm) adjective relating to or resembling the order Cuculiformes, containing the cuckoos, roadrunners, etc. {Latin cucūlus cuckoo + i 1 + form} …
cuculiform — ləˌfȯrm adjective Etymology: Latin cuculus cuckoo + English iform : like or belonging to the cuckoos or the Cuculiformes * * * cuˈculiform, a. rare. [ad. mod.L. cucūliformis, f. L. cucūlus cuckoo: see form.] Cuckoo like in form or structure;… … Useful english dictionary
cuculiform bird — noun birds having zygodactyl feet (except for the touracos) • Hypernyms: ↑bird • Hyponyms: ↑cuckoo, ↑touraco, ↑turaco, ↑turacou, ↑turakoo • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
List of fossil birds — Birds are generally believed to have evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and dinosaurs, except of course that some of the former survived the Cretaceous Tertiary extinction event… … Wikipedia
psittaciform — ▪ bird Introduction any member of the group of more than 360 species of generally brightly coloured, noisy birds, to which the general name parrot may be applied. All belong to just two families. In the family Psittacidae are parakeets… … Universalium
Hoatzin — by Beni River, Bolivia Conservation status … Wikipedia
Foro (bird) — Taxobox name = Foro status = fossil fossil range = Early Eocene (Ypresian Lutetian) regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves subclassis = Neornithes infraclassis = Neoaves ordo = see text familia = Foratidae (disputed) familia authority … Wikipedia
bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 … Universalium
