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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
psittaciformes is a noun meaning "an order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets". It carries one recorded sense.
an order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets
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 psittaciformes come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.