CAMELIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Camelidae mean? 

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

1. camels and llamas and vicunas

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMELIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Camels and llamas and vicunas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Camelidae; family Camelidae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Camelidae"):

Camelus; genus Camelus (type genus of the Camelidae: camels)

genus Lama; Lama (llamas)

genus Vicugna; Vicugna (a genus of Camelidae)

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

Artiodactyla; order Artiodactyla (an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes)