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Galliformes
noun
pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins
Syn: ↑order Galliformes
Hypernyms: ↑animal order
Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves
Member Meronyms:
gallinaceous bird, ↑gallinacean, ↑Meleagrididae, ↑family Meleagrididae, ↑Tetraonidae, ↑family Tetraonidae, ↑Cracidae, ↑family Cracidae, ↑Megapodiidae, ↑family Megapodiidae, ↑Phasianidae, ↑family Phasianidae, ↑Opisthocomidae, ↑family Opisthocomidae

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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈfȯrˌmēz\ noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from galli- (from Gallus) + -formes
: an order of birds of largely terrestrial habits that are mostly rather large and heavy-bodied with short wings, legs adapted for running and scratching the ground where most of their food (as seeds or worms) is found, a large crop, and a muscular gizzard, that nest usually on the ground, that produce numerous eggs and young which are precocial, and that include the pheasants, turkeys, grouse, partridges, quails, and related birds (as the common domestic fowl, the megapodes and curassows, and the hoatzins) — see galli, opisthocomi

Useful english dictionary. 2012.