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CAPITONIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Capitonidae mean? 

CAPITONIDAE (noun)
  The noun CAPITONIDAE has 1 sense:

1. barbetsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CAPITONIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Barbets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Capitonidae; family Capitonidae

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

bird family (a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Meronyms (members of "Capitonidae"):

barbet (small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings)

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

order Piciformes; Piciformes (woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans)


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