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FAMILY ALCIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Alcidae mean? 

FAMILY ALCIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY ALCIDAE has 1 sense:

1. web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas: auks; puffins; guillemots; murres; etc.play

  Familiarity information: FAMILY ALCIDAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY ALCIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas: auks; puffins; guillemots; murres; etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Alcidae; family Alcidae

Hypernyms ("family Alcidae" 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 "family Alcidae"):

auk (black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas)

Alca; genus Alca (type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill)

genus Plautus; Plautus (a genus of Alcidae)

genus Pinguinus; Pinguinus (great auk)

Cepphus; genus Cepphus (a genus of birds including: guillemots)

genus Uria; Uria (murres)

puffin (any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills)

Fratercula; genus Fratercula; genus Lunda; Lunda (puffins)

Holonyms ("family Alcidae" is a member of...):

Charadriiformes; order Charadriiformes (large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on anima life)


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