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Anseriformes
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Bittern
noun · 78% connection
A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Bustard
noun · 78% connection
large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Carinatae
n. pl. · 78% connection
A grand division of birds, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Chaetopoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They ar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Crane
noun · 78% connection
A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Cultirostres
n. pl. · 78% connection
A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Desmognathous
adjective · 78% connection
Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimmin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Euornithes
n. pl. · 78% connection
The division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, or all living birds except the penguins and birds of ostrichlike form.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Fission
noun · 78% connection
A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradua…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Gallinae
noun · 78% connection
An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Gallinule
noun · 78% connection
One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable fo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Godwit
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidae. The European black-tailed godwit (Limos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Grallae
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and al…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Hemipode
noun · 78% connection
small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Heron
noun · 78% connection
Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Ibis
noun · 78% connection
Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidae, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous specie…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
Jabiru
noun · 78% connection
One of several large wading birds of the genera Mycteria and Xenorhynchus, allied to the storks in form and habits.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: division, wading, birds, including, herons.
