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TYTONIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tytonidae mean?
• TYTONIDAE (noun)
The noun TYTONIDAE has 1 sense:
1. comprising only the barn owls
Familiarity information: TYTONIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Comprising only the barn owls
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Tytonidae; Tytonidae
Hypernyms ("Tytonidae" 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 "Tytonidae"):
genus Tyto; Tyto (type and only genus of the family Tytonidae)
Holonyms ("Tytonidae" is a member of...):
order Strigiformes; Strigiformes (owls)
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