Definition of Todidae

1. Noun. A family of birds of the order Coraciiformes.

Exact synonyms: Family Todidae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Coraciiformes, Order Coraciiformes
Member holonyms: Genus Todus, Todus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Todidae

Tocharians
Tochigi
Tocqueville
Tocquevillian
Tod's muscle
Toda
Todaro
Todd
Todd's paralysis
Todd's postepileptic paralysis
Todd unit
Todea
Todea barbara
Todea superba
Todidae (current term)
Todus
Tofieldia
Tofieldia pusilla
Tofinu
Tofinus
Tofranil
Togarmah
Togaviridae
Togliatti
Togo
Togo franc
Togoland
Togolander
Togolanders

Literary usage of Todidae

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

1. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... Galbulidae, and Todidae. The presence of this peculiar form, with 2 trogons 10 species of parrots, all but one peculiar; 16 peculiar humming-birds ..."

2. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"... and the amended arrangement may be thus tabulated, the Todidae and Momo- tidae almost certainly forming a single family, as has been suggested by many, ..."

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