Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The rasorial birds proper, commonly rated as an order or suborder, and containing all kinds of domestic fowls or poultry, and their feral relatives, as turkeys, pheasants, grouse, partridges, quails, guinea-fowls, the mound-birds of Australia, the curassows, hoccos, guans, etc.: equivalent to the old order Rasores minus the pigeons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) Same as
gallinae .
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Examples
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There under the shade of the trees fluttered several couples of gallinaceae belonging to the pheasant species.
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During one of these excursions, Gideon Spilett managed to get hold of two couples of living gallinaceae.
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During one of these excursions, Gideon Spilett managed to get hold of two couples of living gallinaceae.
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Pencroft determined to get hold of at least one of these gallinaceae, which were as large as a fowl, and whose flesh is better than that of a pullet.
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Pencroft determined to get hold of at least one of these gallinaceae, which were as large as a fowl, and whose flesh is better than that of a pullet.
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They walked along, pecking the ground, and not suspecting in any way the presence of the hunters, who, besides, had taken care to place themselves to leeward of the gallinaceae.
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The jerks attracted the attention of the gallinaceae, and they attacked the hooks with their beaks.
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A few days afterwards, Herbert snared a couple of gallinaceae, with spreading tails composed of long feathers, magnificent alectors, which soon became tame.
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There under the shade of the trees fluttered several couples of gallinaceae belonging to the pheasant species.
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They walked along, pecking the ground, and not suspecting in any way the presence of the hunters, who, besides, had taken care to place themselves to leeward of the gallinaceae.
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