Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
term used in former classifications;
erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes;
[syn: Raptores, order Raptores]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Raptores \Rap*to"res\ (r[a^]p*t[=o]"r[=e]z), n. pl. [NL. See
Raptor.] (Zool.)
An order of birds, same as Accipitres. Called also
Raptatores.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Raptores
n 1: term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped
together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes
[syn: Raptores, order Raptores]