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Webster 1913 Edition

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(rȧ-zō′rēz)

Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. L.

radere

rasum

, to scratch. See

Verb.

]

(Zool.)

An order of birds; the Gallinae.

☞ Formerly, the word

Rasores

was used in a wider sense, so as to include other birds now widely separated in classification.

Rasores

(obsolete) A taxonomic order within the class Aves – chicken-like (Galliformes) and dove-like (Columbiformes) birds.