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ORDER GALLIFORMES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does order Galliformes mean?
• ORDER GALLIFORMES (noun)
The noun ORDER GALLIFORMES has 1 sense:
1. pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins
Familiarity information: ORDER GALLIFORMES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Galliformes; order Galliformes
Hypernyms ("order Galliformes" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "order 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 ("order Galliformes" is a member of...):
Aves; class Aves ((ornithology) the class of birds)
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