Definition of Bucerotidae

1. Noun. Hornbills.

Exact synonyms: Family Bucerotidae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Coraciiformes, Order Coraciiformes
Member holonyms: Buceros, Genus Buceros, Hornbill

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bucerotidae

Bubalus mindorensis
Bubba
Buber
Bubo virginianus
Bubulcus
Bubulcus ibis
Bucalemo
Bucalemu
Bucaramanga
Buccinidae
Bucconidae
Bucephala
Bucephala islandica
Bucephela albeola
Bucephela clangula
Bucerotidae (current term)
Buchanan
Bucharest
Bucharesti
Bucharestian
Bucharestians
Buchloe
Buchloe dactyloides
Buchner
Buchner extract
Buchner funnel
Buchwald's atrophy
Buck's Fizz
Buck's Fizzes
Buck's extension

Literary usage of Bucerotidae

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

1. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"from the Coraciidae, Meropidae, Bucerotidae, ... In the Alcedinidae the sternum and plantar arrangement correspond ; in the Bucerotidae ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"The Old World Families Bucerotidae and Upupidae are united under the latter ... V. Bucerotidae.—The Hornbills derive, their name from the immensely ..."

3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... trogons (Trogonidae); kingfishers (Alcedinidae); and hornbills (Bucerotidae); five families which are perhaps the most conspicuous in the whole fauna. ..."

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