columbiform_bird (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *columbiform bird*:
NOUN	animal	columbiform bird	a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes

English > *columbiform bird*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	A cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes.
Member of	Columbiformes, order Columbiformes	sand grouse
Narrower	dodo, Raphus cucullatus	Extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons
	pigeon	wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
	sandgrouse, sand grouse	pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young
	solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria	Extinct flightless bird related to the dodo
Broader	gallinaceous bird, gallinacean	Heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds
Spanish	columbiforme
Catalan	columbiforme

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