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ORDER PSITTACIFORMES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does order Psittaciformes mean?
• ORDER PSITTACIFORMES (noun)
The noun ORDER PSITTACIFORMES has 1 sense:
1. an order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets
Familiarity information: ORDER PSITTACIFORMES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
order Psittaciformes; Psittaciformes
Hypernyms ("order Psittaciformes" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "order Psittaciformes"):
parrot (usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds)
family Psittacidae; Psittacidae (coextensive with the order Psittaciformes)
Holonyms ("order Psittaciformes" is a member of...):
Aves; class Aves ((ornithology) the class of birds)
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