Galbulidae

plural noun

Gal·​bu·​li·​dae

: a family of brightly colored, long-billed, tropical American birds (order Piciformes) containing the jacamars, and in some classifications the puffbirds compare bucconidae

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Galbula, type genus + -idae

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