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from The Century Dictionary.
- In Macgillivray's system of classification, an order of birds, the gropers, such as rails, gallinules, and coots: also called
Latitores , or skulkers: equivalent to the modern family Rallidæ, or rather to the ralliform birds at large. - In entomology: In Latreille's classification (1802), a group of beetles corresponding to the modern family Scydmænidæ.
- A suborder of harvestmen or Opiliones, in which the palpi are slender and filiform, with or without a tarsal claw, the maxillary lobe of the first pair of legs is free, the sternum is short, and the genital aperture is close to the mouth: distinguished from
Laniatores .
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