columbiform bird

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

   Broadergallinaceous bird

   Narrowerdodosolitairepigeonsandgrouse

   Part ofColumbiformes

Questions about columbiform bird

What does columbiform bird mean?

columbiform bird means "a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes".

Is columbiform bird a common word?

columbiform bird 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.