PARIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paridae mean? 

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

1. titmice and chickadees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Titmice and chickadees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Paridae; Paridae

Hypernyms ("Paridae" 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 "Paridae"):

tit; titmouse (small insectivorous birds)

genus Parus; Parus (type genus of the family Paridae)

genus Psaltriparus; Psaltriparus; Chamaea; genus Chamaea; Auriparus; genus Auriparus (a genus of Paridae)

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

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