coraciiform bird

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Noun

1.

coraciiform bird - chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes bird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings Coraciiformes, order Coraciiformes - rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies roller - Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers kingfisher - nonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fish bee eater - colorful chiefly tropical Old World bird having a strong graceful flight; feeds on especially bees hornbill - bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers hoopoe, hoopoo - any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill wood hoopoe - tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest momot, motmot - tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage tody - tiny insectivorous West Indian bird having red-and-green plumage and a long straight bill