Definition of Phoenicopteridae

1. Noun. Flamingos.

Exact synonyms: Family Phoenicopteridae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Ciconiiformes, Order Ciconiiformes
Member holonyms: Flamingo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phoenicopteridae

Phobos
Phoca vitulina
Phocaena
Phocaena phocaena
Phocaena sinus
Phocidae
Phocis
Phoebe
Phoebean
Phoebus Apollo
Phoenicia
Phoenician
Phoenician alphabet
Phoenicians
Phoenicophorium
Phoenicopteridae
Phoeniculidae
Phoeniculus
Phoenicurus
Phoenix
Phoenix dactylifera
Pholadidae
Pholidae
Pholidota
Pholiota
Pholiota astragalina
Pholiota aurea
Pholiota destruens
Pholiota flammans
Pholiota flavida

Literary usage of Phoenicopteridae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1858)
"phoenicopteridae.—Commissure bent abruptly in the middle nearly at a right angle. Bill without nail. Legs excessively lengthened ; tibia bare for half its ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... though not quite simultaneously; but most Anatidae (Swans, Geese and Ducks), and apparently the phoenicopteridae (Flamingos), lose all the former at ..."

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