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Definition of Falconiformes
1. Noun. Chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe: falcons; hawks; eagles; ospreys; caracaras; vultures.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Aves, Class Aves
Member holonyms: Accipitridae, Family Accipitridae, Falconidae, Family Falconidae, Family Pandionidae, Pandionidae, Family Sagittariidae, Sagittariidae, Cathartidae, Family Cathartidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falconiformes
Literary usage of Falconiformes
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)
"... of various Falconiformes—Of the Vultures—Of certain Eagles —Of the Kites—Of
the Hawks and Harriers—Of the Ospreys—Nests of the Humming Birds—Of certain ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"In fact, it seems to the writer that the only groups that really come into question
are the Falconiformes and aberrant Gruiformes, Carima, Chunga, ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"Falconiformes. ... may be placed the large and important terrestrial Order
Falconiformes, with its Sub-Orders ..."
4. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"FALCON-LIKE BIRDS OR BIRDS OF PREY (Falconiformes) Just as the great carnivores
among mammals are ... The order Falconiformes falls into three subdivisions, ..."
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