COLUMBIFORM BIRD

 Dictionary entry overview: What does columbiform bird mean? 

• COLUMBIFORM BIRD (noun)
  The noun COLUMBIFORM BIRD has 1 sense:

1. a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes

  Familiarity information: COLUMBIFORM BIRD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLUMBIFORM BIRD (noun)

Meaning:

A cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("columbiform bird" is a kind of...):

gallinacean; gallinaceous bird (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "columbiform bird"):

dodo; Raphus cucullatus (extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons)

Pezophaps solitaria; solitaire (extinct flightless bird related to the dodo)

pigeon (wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs)

sand grouse; sandgrouse (pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young)

Holonyms ("columbiform bird" is a member of...):

Columbiformes; order Columbiformes (sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires)