84 Words That Rhyme With PERCIFORMES

• in some classifications an alternative name for the Falconiformes

• huge extinct flightless birds: elephant birds

• elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced

• ducks; geese; swans; screamers

• swifts; hummingbirds

• a ratite bird order: flightless ground birds having vestigial wings and long bills and small eyes: kiwis

• goatsuckers; frogmouths; oilbirds

• a ratite bird order: cassowaries and emus

• large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on animal life

• order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises

• sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires

• grebes

• rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies

• cuckoos; touracos; etc.

• an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi

• a ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand

• chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe: falcons; hawks; eagles; ospreys; caracaras; vultures

• cods, haddocks, grenadiers; in some classifications considered equivalent to the order Anacanthini

• pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins

• large aquatic birds: loons and some extinct forms

• inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards

• hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys

• teleost fish with bony tongues

• largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows (Passeriformes)

• pelicans; frigate birds; gannets; cormorants

• lampreys as distinguished from hagfishes

• woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans

• grebes

• grebes

• petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels

• an order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets

• fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes

• a ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus: recent and extinct rheas

• an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes

• penguins

• owls

• a ratite bird order: ostriches and related extinct birds; known from the Pleistocene onward

• coextensive with the family Tinamidae

• rays with bodies shaped like torpedoes

• trogons

• ducks; geese; swans; screamers

• swifts; hummingbirds