Akademik

Gruiformes

noun

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

• Syn: ↑order Gruiformes

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves

• Member Meronyms:

↑Gruidae, ↑family Gruidae, ↑Aramus, ↑genus Aramus, ↑courlan, ↑Aramus guarauna, ↑limpkin, ↑Aramus pictus, ↑Cariamidae, ↑family Cariamidae, ↑Rallidae, ↑family Rallidae, ↑Otides, ↑suborder Otides, ↑Otididae, ↑family Otididae, ↑Turnicidae, ↑family Turnicidae, ↑Psophiidae, ↑family Psophiidae

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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈfȯrˌmēz\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Grus + -iformes

: a nearly cosmopolitan order of birds that are typically marsh-dwelling and wading birds with long legs, neck, and bill and rather heavy flight and that include the cranes, rails and coots, bustards, and a number of related tropical birds — see cariama

Useful english dictionary. 2012.