class aves

1. 1.

   (ornithology) the class of birds

   SynonymsAves

   Broaderclass

   Part ofVertebrata

   ornithology

Questions about class aves

What does class aves mean?

class aves means "(ornithology) the class of birds".

What is another word for class aves?

Close synonyms include Aves. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is class aves a common word?

class aves is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.