FAMILY OTIDIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Otididae mean? 

• FAMILY OTIDIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY OTIDIDAE has 1 sense:

1. bustards

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY OTIDIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bustards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Otididae; Otididae

Hypernyms ("family Otididae" 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 Otididae"):

bustard (large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes)

genus Otis; Otis (type genus of the Otididae: European bustard)

Choriotis; genus Choriotis (Australian bustard)

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

Gruiformes; order Gruiformes (inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards)