Definition of Gruiformes

1. Noun. Inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Gruiformes

Grover
Grover's disease
Grover Cleveland
Groves
Grozny
Groznyy
Grub Street
Grubb's test
Grubb's tests
Gruber's cul-de-sac
Gruber's method
Gruber's reaction
Gruber-Landzert fossa
Gruber-Widal reaction
Gruidae
Gruiformes
Grundyism
Grus
Grus americana
Gruyere
Gruyère
Gryme
Grymes
Gryms
Grynfeltt
Grynfeltt's triangle
Grypsera
Græcaster
Græcian

Literary usage of Gruiformes

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 (1916)
"... was a family belonging among the Cranes and their allies (gruiformes), and the remodeled one, in which my present views were set forth. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... in particular of the Galliformes, when these were still scarcely separated from the gruiformes, especially rail-like birds, leads through ..."

3. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"THE CRANE-LIKE BIRDS (gruiformes) The majority of the members of this order are waders, but some, such as the bustards and the ..."

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