Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Illiger's system (1811), the rasorial birds, or scratchers, an order of Aves, including the gallinaceous and columbaceous birds.
- The same excluding the pigeons: now usually called
Gallinæ (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of birds; the Gallinæ.
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The third (rasores) are distinguished by strong feet, for walking or running on the ground, and for scraping in it for their food; also by wings designed to scarcely raise them off the earth and, farther, by
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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Finally, the scansores resemble the rasores in their superior intelligence and docility, and in their having strong limbs and a bill entire at the tip.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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