order ciconiiformes

1. 1.

   order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises

   SynonymsCiconiiformes

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofAves

Questions about order ciconiiformes

What does order ciconiiformes mean?

order ciconiiformes means "order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises".

What is another word for order ciconiiformes?

Close synonyms include Ciconiiformes. 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 order ciconiiformes a common word?

order ciconiiformes 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.