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from The Century Dictionary.
- The fourth Linnean order of birds; the waders, including forms now dispersed in several orders.
- In Merrem's classification, the larger and chiefly altricial grallatorial birds, such as herons, ibises, storks, and spoonbills, and also præcocial forms, such as the cranes.
- An ordinal or other group of wading birds, variously restricted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also
Grallatores.
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