gallinaceous bird

Questions about gallinaceous bird

What is another word for gallinaceous bird?

It depends which gallinaceous bird you mean. In the sense “heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds”, the synonyms are gallinacean. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of gallinaceous bird?

WordNet records no antonym for gallinaceous bird. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for gallinaceous bird come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of gallinaceous bird

• Full entry for gallinaceous birdAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for gallinaceous birdWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.