raptores Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes
    order Raptores.

WordNet

Rap*to"res noun plural
Etymology
NL. See Raptor.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.

Webster 1913