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Definition of Coraciidae
1. Noun. Rollers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Coraciiformes, Order Coraciiformes
Member holonyms: Roller, Coracias, Genus Coracias
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coraciidae
Literary usage of Coraciidae
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)
"... consists of the Families Coraciidae or Hollers, ... I. Coraciidae.—Two
Sub-families may be recognised of these Old World birds, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Madagascar has four or five very remarkable forms which have often been considered
to belong to the family Coraciidae; and, according to A. Milne-Edwards, ..."
3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"Three families, the Bucerotidae, Meropidae and Coraciidae are equally characteristic
of the Oriental and ..."
4. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1892)
"... Copris, &c., are the principal food of all Coraciidae. I have dissected the
stomachs of several species of Coradas and of Eurystomus afer in Africa, ..."
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