单词 | rasores |
释义 | Rasoresn. Ornithology. Now historical. With singular agreement. A former order of birds comprising those that scratch the ground to obtain food, including the gallinaceous birds and the doves and pigeons; (with plural agreement) the members of this order.The order corresponds largely to the modern orders Galliformes, Columbiformes, and Pteroclidiformes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > that scratches ground > collective Rasores1828 scratcher1831 1828 J. Jennings Ornithologia Introd. 40 By this arrangement, the first division of the whole family of Birds, consisting of Insessores, Raptores, Rasores, Grallatores, and Natatores, might be considered as Classes. 1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 344/1 Linnæus..from the above-mentioned error in his series of affinity considered the Rasores to be analogous to his group of Pecora. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 329 This species..feeds wholly on insects, mingled with a considerable proportion of sand, but is without the crop found among the gravel-using Rasores. 1955 Amer. Midland Naturalist 53 27 This muscle is absent in most birds... According to Gadow and Selenka (1891..) it is found only in the ‘Rasores’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1828 |
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