Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rasores

Rasores (rȧ*zō"rēz) , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Latin radere, rasum, to scratch. See Rase, transitive verb]

(Zoology) An order of birds; the Gallinae.

Formerly, the word Rasores was used in a wider sense, so as to include other birds now widely separated in classification.