gruiformes

1. Inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes;
   Rails;
   Bustards (synset 102014960)
   is a type of: animal order - the order of animals
   member holonym:

   • family gruidae, gruidae - cranes
   • aramus, genus aramus - genus of large brown long-billed wading birds found in warm swampy regions of the western hemisphere: courlan; limpkin
   • aramus guarauna, courlan - wading bird of South America and Central America
   • aramus pictus, limpkin - wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call
   • cariamidae, family cariamidae - crane-like South American wading birds
   • family rallidae, rallidae - rails; crakes; gallinules; coots
   • otides, suborder otides - terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia: bustards
   • family otididae, otididae - bustards
   • family turnicidae, turnicidae - small Old World birds resembling but not related to true quail
   • family psophiidae, psophiidae - trumpeters
   belongs to: aves, class aves - (ornithology) the class of birds
   same as: order gruiformes

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