- gruiform
- gru·iform
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gruiform
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gruiform — [gro͞o′ə fôrm΄] adj. designating or of an order (Gruiformes) of marshland or grassland birds, including rails, cranes, and bustards … English World dictionary
gruiform — /grooh euh fawrm /, adj. Ornith. of or pertaining to birds of the order Gruiformes, including cranes, rails, and coots. [1895 1900; < NL gruiformis, sing. of Gruiformes, equiv. to Gru , s. of Grus a genus of the order (L grus CRANE) + iformes… … Universalium
gruiform — əˌfȯrm adjective Etymology: in sense 1, from Latin grus crane + English iform; in sense 2, from New Latin Gruiformes more at grus 1. : resembling a crane 2. : of or relating to the Gruiformes … 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
charadriiform — ▪ bird order Introduction any member of the large group of birds (bird) that includes the sandpipers (sandpiper), plovers (plover), gulls (gull), auks (auk), and their relatives. These birds form an important and familiar segment of the… … Universalium
Gruiformes — Taxobox name = Gruiformes image width = 240px image caption = Crested Crane, Balearica regulorum gibbericeps regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves infraclassis = Neognathae ordo = Gruiformes ordo authority = Bonaparte, 1854… … Wikipedia
Charadriiformes — Temporal range: Late Cretaceous Recent, 75–0 Ma … Wikipedia
Laornis — NOTOC Taxobox name = Laornis status = fossil fossil range = see text regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves subclassis = Neornithes infraclassis = Neognathae superordo = Neoaves familia = Laornithidae familia authority = Cracraft,… … 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
Bird — /berrd/, n. Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player. * * * I Any of the warm blooded, beaked vertebrates of the class Aves, including more than 9,600 living species. A covering of feathers distinguishes birds from all other animals. Birds have a … Universalium
