Where does “猛禽類” come from?

猛禽類 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 類 — kind, sort, type, the like.

猛禽類 (Japanese): birds of prey

Definitions

  1. birds of prey

Ancestry of “猛禽類”, step by step

猛禽類 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 類

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese類kind, sort, type, the like

via Japanese 猛禽

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese猛禽a bird of prey
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