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Definition of Bucerotidae
1. Noun. Hornbills.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Coraciiformes, Order Coraciiformes
Member holonyms: Buceros, Genus Buceros, Hornbill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bucerotidae
Literary usage of Bucerotidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"from the Coraciidae, Meropidae, Bucerotidae, ... In the Alcedinidae the sternum
and plantar arrangement correspond ; in the Bucerotidae ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"The Old World Families Bucerotidae and Upupidae are united under the latter ...
V. Bucerotidae.—The Hornbills derive, their name from the immensely ..."
3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... trogons (Trogonidae); kingfishers (Alcedinidae); and hornbills (Bucerotidae);
five families which are perhaps the most conspicuous in the whole fauna. ..."
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