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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
gruiformes is a noun meaning "inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards". It carries one recorded sense.
inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gruiformes come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.