PLOCEIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ploceidae mean? 

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

1. weaverbirds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLOCEIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weaverbirds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Ploceidae; Ploceidae

Hypernyms ("Ploceidae" 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 "Ploceidae"):

weaver; weaver finch; weaverbird (finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests)

genus Ploceus; Ploceus (type genus of the Ploceidae)

genus Vidua; Vidua (whydahs)

genus Padda; Padda (a genus of Ploceidae)

Estrilda; genus Estrilda (avadavats)

genus Poephila; Poephila (grassfinches)

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

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