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COTINGIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cotingidae mean? 

COTINGIDAE (noun)
  The noun COTINGIDAE has 1 sense:

1. cotingas; umbrella birdsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


COTINGIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cotingas; umbrella birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cotingidae; family Cotingidae

Hypernyms ("Cotingidae" 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 "Cotingidae"):

genus Cotinga (type genus of the Cotingidae: cotingas)

genus Rupicola; Rupicola (cock of the rocks)

genus Procnias; Procnias (bellbirds)

Cephalopterus; genus Cephalopterus (a genus of Cotingidae)

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

superfamily Tyrannidae; Tyrannidae (New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada)


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