palamedeae

from The Century Dictionary.

• In Sclater's system of classification (1880), an order of birds, containing only the family Palamedeidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun plural (Zoöl.) An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.