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Aves

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Birds; feathered animals, considered as a class of vertebrates,next after mammals: sometimes united with Reptilia in a superclass Sauropsida, distinguished on the one hand from Mammalia, and on the other from Ichthyopsida, or amphibians and fishes together.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun plural. The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (ornithology) the class of birds
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    "Also aves is not nested in repltilia - olegt has said that."
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