Piciformes – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Piciformes
Nine
families of largely arboreal
birds make up the
order Piciformes, the best-known of them being the Picidae, which includes the
woodpeckers and close relatives. The Piciformes contain about 67 living
genera with a little over 400
species, of which the
Picidae (
woodpeckers and relatives) make up about half.
Piciformes
Noun
1. woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans
(synonym) order Piciformes
(hypernym) animal order
(member-holonym) Aves, class Aves
(member-meronym) piciform bird
Piciformes
(n. pl.)
A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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