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Definition of Suborder Otides
1. Noun. Terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia: bustards.
Exact synonyms: Otides
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Gruiformes, Order Gruiformes
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Gruiformes, Order Gruiformes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Otides
Literary usage of Suborder Otides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1892)
"Suborder OTIDES. Otis affini», n.sp. (fossil), Bavaria,R. LYDEKKER,Cat.Fossil B.
Brit.Mus. p. 168. 0. tarda, in Wiltshire ; AC SMITH, Wilt. Mag. xxv, pp. ..."
2. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1889)
"Suborder OTIDES. The Bustards appear to form a link between Rails and Cranes on
one side and Plovers on the other, but are nearest on the «hole to the ..."
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