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Definition of Piciformes
1. Noun. Woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Aves, Class Aves
Member holonyms: Piciform Bird, Family Picidae, Picidae, Capitonidae, Family Capitonidae, Bucconidae, Family Bucconidae, Family Indicatoridae, Indicatoridae, Family Galbulidae, Galbulidae, Family Ramphastidae, Ramphastidae
Definition of Piciformes
1. n. pl. A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.
Medical Definition of Piciformes
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Piciformes
Literary usage of Piciformes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"ORDER piciformes. " WOODPECKERS and their kin " might be the popular title of
this Order of birds, but it includes two Families which cannot be called ..."
2. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"... two main orders, the piciformes and the Passeriformes. piciformes, Passeriformes,
with tufted oil-gland and no caeca. with nude oil-gland and caeca. ..."
3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1874)
"... makes it easy to divide them up into two main orders, the piciformes and the
Passeriformes. piciformes, •with tufted oil-gland and no cocca. (Pici. ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... and other piciformes. The second paper described the extraordinary structure
of the gizzard of the Fijian Fruit Pigeon ..."
5. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1906)
"... piciformes, Passeriformes, Species. Specimens. Kingfishers and Horn- bills 2
Trogons 7 Cuckoos I Toucans 3 Woodpeckers 2 Thrushes, Sparrows, ..."
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