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raptores
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun raptores has 1 sense
- raptores(n = noun.animal) order raptores - term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes; Array is a kind of animal order
is a member of aves, class aves
CIDE DICTIONARY
raptores, n. pl. [NL. See Raptor.].
An order of birds, same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores . [1913 Webster]
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