Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order or other large group of wading birds, synonymous with Grallæ in any of its senses.
- In Bonaparte's dichotomous physiological classification of birds, a subclass of Aves (the other subclass being called
Insessores ), containing those birds the young of which are hatched clothed and able to run about.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) See
grallæ .
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Examples
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What seems plainer than that the long toes of grallatores are formed for walking over swamps and floating plants, yet the water-hen is nearly as aquatic as the coot; and the landrail nearly as terrestrial as the quail or partridge.
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What seems plainer than that the long toes of grallatores are formed for walking over swamps and floating plants, yet the water-hen is nearly as aquatic as the coot; and the landrail nearly as terrestrial as the quail or partridge.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 06 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859
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It woke the grallatores of the swamp -- the qua-bird, the curlews, and the tall blue herons -- who screamed in concert.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850
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What seems plainer than that the long toes of grallatores are formed for walking over swamps and floating plants, yet the water-hen is nearly as aquatic as the coot; and the landrail nearly as terrestrial as the quail or partridge.
On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845
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What seems plainer than that the long toes of grallatores are formed for walking over swamps and floating plants, yet the water-hen is nearly as aquatic as the coot; and the landrail nearly as terrestrial as the quail or partridge.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Charles Darwin 1845
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Of the thirty species of grallatores the most remarkable is the emu.
The History of Tasmania, Volume I John West 1840
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The second (grallatores) are long-limbed and long-billed, that they may wade and pick up their subsistence in the shallows and marshes in which they chiefly live.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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In the conirostres are the perfections which belong to the incessores as an order, with the conspicuous external feature of a comparatively small notch in their bills; in the dentirostres, the notch is strong and toothlike, (hence the name of the tribe) assimilating them to the raptores; the fissirostres come into analogy with the natatores in the slight development of their feet and their great powers of flight; the tenuirostres have the small mouths and long soft bills of the grallatores.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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