BOMBYCILLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bombycilla mean? 

• BOMBYCILLA (noun)
  The noun BOMBYCILLA has 1 sense:

1. waxwings

  Familiarity information: BOMBYCILLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOMBYCILLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Waxwings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bombycilla; genus bombycilla

Hypernyms ("Bombycilla" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Bombycilla"):

waxwing (brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips)

Holonyms ("Bombycilla" is a member of...):

Bombycillidae; family Bombycillidae (a family of birds of the suborder Oscines)