Definition of Picariae

1. Noun. Term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes.

Exact synonyms: Order Picariae
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Aves, Class Aves

Medical Definition of Picariae

1. An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds. Origin: NL, fr. L. Picus a woodpecker. (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Picariae

picalilli
picalillis
picamar
picamars
picaninnies
picaninny
picante
picapare
picara
picaras
picardy third
picaresque
picaresquely
picaresqueness
picaresques
picariae (current term)
picarian
picarians
picaridin
picaridine
picaridines
picaro
picaroon
picarooned
picarooning
picaroons
picaros
picas
picayune
picayunes

Literary usage of Picariae

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

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"This arrangement is adopted tentatively, as under the head of'Order IV, picariae' (p. i) we find the following: "The adoption of an 'order of ..."

2. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"The picariae comprise such a variety of forms that it has been termed the " avian ... The well-marked groups embraced under the term picariae, and often, ..."

3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1901)
"Under the head of picariae, however, Miiller included the ... and thus a group of " picariae " very different from that of Nitzsch was established. ..."

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