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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesekind, sort, type, the like

via Japanese 猛禽

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese猛禽a bird of prey
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