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CRACIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cracidae mean? 

CRACIDAE (noun)
  The noun CRACIDAE has 1 sense:

1. curassows; guans; chachalacasplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CRACIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Curassows; guans; chachalacas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cracidae; family Cracidae

Hypernyms ("Cracidae" 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 "Cracidae"):

guan (any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food)

Crax; genus Crax (type genus of the Cracidae: curassows)

genus Penelope; Penelope (a genus of guans (turkey-like arboreal birds valued as game and food birds))

genus Pipile; Pipile (genus of large crested guans (the piping guans))

genus Ortalis; Ortalis (chachalacas)

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

Galliformes; order Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins)


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