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Definition of Otididae
1. Noun. Bustards.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Gruiformes, Order Gruiformes
Member holonyms: Bustard, Genus Otis, Otis, Choriotis, Genus Choriotis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Otididae
Literary usage of Otididae
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)
"... and Otididae, and the latter of the Rallidae and ... Some writers, both modern
and ancient, have placed the Otididae in the ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"... although, I by no means consider it to be very closely allied to the
Otididae.3 'See A. Newton, art. "Ruff." Diet. Birds, Darwin, "The Descent of Man," ..."
3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"The Otididae, or Bustards, occur in all parts of the Old World and Australia
where there are open tracts, being only absent from Madagascar and the Malay ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"... leading outward by three " distinct series or gradations." In one of these,
Otididae lead from plovers to cranes, and such genera as ..."
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