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Definition of Phoenicopteridae
1. Noun. Flamingos.
Exact synonyms: Family Phoenicopteridae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Ciconiiformes, Order Ciconiiformes
Member holonyms: Flamingo
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Ciconiiformes, Order Ciconiiformes
Member holonyms: Flamingo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phoenicopteridae
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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