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GALLIFORMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Galliformes mean? 

GALLIFORMES (noun)
  The noun GALLIFORMES has 1 sense:

1. pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzinsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GALLIFORMES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Galliformes; order Galliformes

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Galliformes"):

gallinacean; gallinaceous bird (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)

family Meleagrididae; Meleagrididae (turkeys and some extinct forms)

family Tetraonidae; Tetraonidae (grouse)

Cracidae; family Cracidae (curassows; guans; chachalacas)

family Megapodiidae; Megapodiidae (megapodes)

family Phasianidae; Phasianidae (pheasants; quails; partridges)

family Opisthocomidae; Opisthocomidae (comprising the hoatzins)

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

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


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