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RAMPHASTIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ramphastidae mean?
• RAMPHASTIDAE (noun)
The noun RAMPHASTIDAE has 1 sense:
1. toucans
Familiarity information: RAMPHASTIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Toucans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Ramphastidae; Ramphastidae
Hypernyms ("Ramphastidae" 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 "Ramphastidae"):
toucan (brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak)
Aulacorhyncus; genus Aulacorhyncus (a genus of Ramphastidae)
Holonyms ("Ramphastidae" is a member of...):
order Piciformes; Piciformes (woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans)
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