Definition of Cuculiformes

1. Noun. Cuckoos; touracos; etc..

Exact synonyms: Order Cuculiformes
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Aves, Class Aves
Member holonyms: Cuculiform Bird, Cuculidae, Family Cuculidae, Family Musophagidae, Musophagidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuculiformes

Cuban mahogany
Cuban monetary unit
Cuban peso
Cuban red macaw
Cuban red macaws
Cuban sandwich
Cuban sandwiches
Cuban spinach
Cubanism
Cubans
Cubist
Cubists
Cubs
Cuca
Cuculidae
Cuculiformes (current term)
Cuculus
Cuculus canorus
Cucumis
Cucumis melo
Cucumis melo cantalupensis
Cucumis melo inodorus
Cucumis melo reticulatus
Cucumis sativus
Cucurbita
Cucurbita foetidissima
Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis
Cucurbita mixta

Literary usage of Cuculiformes

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

1. Birds' Nests: An Introduction to the Science of Caliology by Charles Dixon (1902)
"... the Falcons—Of certain Owls—Of the Coraciiformes — Of the Psittaciformes — Of the Cuculiformes — Of certain Cuckoos—Of the Columbiformes—Peculiarity in ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... Cuculiformes -f- ... to the Cuculiformes. These are, again in an ascending direction, connected with the ..."

3. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Cuculiformes. — CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS.—Arboreal birds with first and fourth toes directed backwards; ..."

4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1901)
"This type is shown to a greater or less degree by all those birds, usually classed as Cuculiformes, Coraciiformes and Passeri- formes. ..."

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