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Columbiformes

noun

sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires

• Syn: ↑order Columbiformes

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves

• Member Meronyms:

↑columbiform bird, ↑Raphidae, ↑family Raphidae, ↑Columbidae, ↑family Columbidae, ↑Pteroclididae, ↑family Pteroclididae

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\\kəˌləmbə̇ˈfȯrˌmēz\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Columba + -iformes

: a cosmopolitan order of land birds with four unwebbed toes, short legs, small heads, and usually little visible difference between the sexes that includes the sandgrouse and the pigeons and doves together with their extinct relatives, the dodo and solitaire

Useful english dictionary. 2012.