gallinacean
English Thesaurus
1. heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | bird, |
definition | : | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | domestic fowl, fowl, poultry, |
definition | : | a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | gallina, jungle fowl, |
definition | : | small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | guan, |
definition | : | any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | curassow, |
definition | : | large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | chachalaca, |
definition | : | slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | columbiform bird, |
definition | : | a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | game bird, |
definition | : | any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport (noun.animal) |
part holonym | : | cockscomb, comb, coxcomb, |
definition | : | the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | galliformes, order galliformes, |
definition | : | pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins (noun.animal) |
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