FAMILY PELECANOIDIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Pelecanoididae mean? 

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

1. diving petrels

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PELECANOIDIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Diving petrels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Pelecanoididae; Pelecanoididae

Hypernyms ("family Pelecanoididae" 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 Pelecanoididae"):

diving petrel (any of several small diving birds of southern hemisphere seas; somewhat resemble auks)

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

order Procellariiformes; Procellariiformes (petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels)