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How to use gallinaceous in a sentence

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Everyone has seen at least a few gallinaceous birds, since domesticated chicken and turkeys are in this category.
A sister-group relationship between gallinaceous birds and waterfowl, the Galloanserae, is also strongly supported.
This invention relates to apparatus for processing carcasses of gallinaceous animals, particularly but not exclusively, chickens and turkeys.
Supra-orbital combs and wattles are fairly common in gallinaceous birds, but they also occur in other taxonomically unrelated bird families.
Table 9 shows the number of spurred species in various families and subfamilies of gallinaceous birds.
More likely to be seen or heard on the plateau is the little chachalaca, a gallinaceous bird named in part for its noisy call.
The large majority of gallinaceous birds nest on the ground, the nest being only a shallow scrape lined with soft grass or leaves.
Individuals raising pheasants or any other gallinaceous game bird must be the holder of a Game Bird Farmer's Licence.
Histomonas meleagridis is a protozoan parasite that may cause histomoniasis, a disease of gallinaceous fowl characterized by necrotic typhlitis, hepatitis and high mortality.
Species in which the young hatch in a relatively well developed, almost independent state tend to have very large clutches, as in many gallinaceous birds.
Gallinaceous is an adjective describing birds of the order Gallinae, which includes common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, and quails.
Examples from Classical Literature
The gallinaceous birds are represented by a quail, Coturnix novae zealandiae, now exterminated.
Birds of the most brilliant plumage are to be found among the gallinaceous tribe.
As its appearance exhibits a near approach to the gallinaceous birds, so do its habits.
The grouse is a northern bird, extending into far colder regions than any other subfamily of the gallinaceous group.
It is certain that between Claudit and the gallinaceous tribe obscure affinities existed.
The Coturnix vulgaris, a gallinaceous bird, allied to the partridge, but of smaller size.
Much wild fowl is found in the forest, especially of the gallinaceous species.
The 3d is the gallinaceous, or Poultry order, which is without both the talons and the hooked bill of the rapacious kind.
The prevalence of this sign may be accounted for by the kindred love for the barleycorn in the human and gallinaceous tribes.
The Himalayas are the home of many species of gallinaceous birds.
This term describes a class of circling displays common among gallinaceous birds.
The virus infects several species of gallinaceous birds but has not been shown to cause disease in other avian classes.
Among the gallinaceous birds there does not appear to be much music.
Given that invertebrates are not generally eaten by gallinaceous birds in the winter, the effect on the data should have been minimal.
A few examples are the well regulated bath of the finch, the wallowing of the equids, and the sand-bathing of the gallinaceous.
The second is a small, rather nondescript gallinaceous bird with the scientific name Coturnix coturnix, commonly known today as the European quail.
Differences in the amount of use tall fescue and NWSG receive by gallinaceous broods is more likely determined by vegetative parameters rather than invertebrate abundance.
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