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Definition of Cuculiformes
1. Noun. Cuckoos; touracos; etc..
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Aves, Class Aves
Member holonyms: Cuculiform Bird, Cuculidae, Family Cuculidae, Family Musophagidae, Musophagidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuculiformes
Literary usage of Cuculiformes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds' Nests: An Introduction to the Science of Caliology by Charles Dixon (1902)
"... the Falcons—Of certain Owls—Of the Coraciiformes — Of the Psittaciformes — Of
the Cuculiformes — Of certain Cuckoos—Of the Columbiformes—Peculiarity in ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... Cuculiformes -f- ... to the Cuculiformes. These are, again in an ascending
direction, connected with the ..."
3. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Cuculiformes. — CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS.—Arboreal birds with first and fourth toes
directed backwards; ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1901)
"This type is shown to a greater or less degree by all those birds, usually classed
as Cuculiformes, Coraciiformes and Passeri- formes. ..."
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