Definition of Otididae

1. Noun. Bustards.

Exact synonyms: Family Otididae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Gruiformes, Order Gruiformes
Member holonyms: Bustard, Genus Otis, Otis, Choriotis, Genus Choriotis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Otididae

Otaheite arrowroot
Otaheite arrowroot starch
Otaria
Otaria Byronia
Otariidae
Othello
Othello syndrome
Other Side
Otherworld
Otherworlds
Othman
Othman I
Othmans
Otho I
Otides
Otididae (current term)
Otis
Otis Skinner
Otis tarda
Oto
Otobius
Otoe
Otomanguean
Otomi
Otsu
Otsukimi
Ottawa
Ottawan
Ottawans

Literary usage of Otididae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... and Otididae, and the latter of the Rallidae and ... Some writers, both modern and ancient, have placed the Otididae in the ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"... although, I by no means consider it to be very closely allied to the Otididae.3 'See A. Newton, art. "Ruff." Diet. Birds, Darwin, "The Descent of Man," ..."

3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"The Otididae, or Bustards, occur in all parts of the Old World and Australia where there are open tracts, being only absent from Madagascar and the Malay ..."

4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"... leading outward by three " distinct series or gradations." In one of these, Otididae lead from plovers to cranes, and such genera as ..."

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