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Strigiformes

noun

owls

• Syn: ↑order Strigiformes

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves

• Member Meronyms:

↑owl, ↑bird of Minerva, ↑bird of night, ↑hooter, ↑Strigidae, ↑family Strigidae, ↑Tytonidae, ↑family Tytonidae

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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈfȯrˌmēz\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Strig-, Strix + -iformes

: an order of birds of prey that comprises the owls and is usually divided into the families Tytonidae and Strigidae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.