Picariae > define
noun
- Term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes.
- synonyms: order Picariae
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary