COLUMBIFORMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Columbiformes mean? 

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

1. sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLUMBIFORMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Columbiformes; order Columbiformes

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Columbiformes"):

columbiform bird (a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes)

family Raphidae; Raphidae (extinct dodos and solitaires)

Columbidae; family Columbidae (doves and pigeons)

family Pteroclididae; Pteroclididae (sandgrouses)

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

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