IRENIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Irenidae mean? 

• IRENIDAE (noun)
  The noun IRENIDAE has 1 sense:

1. a family of birds of the suborder Oscines

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRENIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of birds of the suborder Oscines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Irenidae; Irenidae

Hypernyms ("Irenidae" 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 "Irenidae"):

genus Irena; Irena (type genus of the Irenidae: fairy bluebirds)

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

Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)