FAMILY TROGONIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Trogonidae mean? 

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

1. coextensive with the order Trogoniformes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY TROGONIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coextensive with the order Trogoniformes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Trogonidae; Trogonidae

Hypernyms ("family Trogonidae" 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 Trogonidae"):

genus Trogon (type genus of the Trogonidae)

trogon (forest bird of warm regions of the New World having brilliant lustrous plumage and long tails)

genus Pharomacrus; Pharomacrus (a genus of Trogonidae)

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

order Trogoniformes; Trogoniformes (trogons)