BALAENICIPITIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Balaenicipitidae mean? 

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

1. shoebills

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALAENICIPITIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shoebills

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Balaenicipitidae; family Balaenicipitidae

Hypernyms ("Balaenicipitidae" 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 "Balaenicipitidae"):

Balaeniceps; genus Balaeniceps (type genus of the Balaenicipitidae: shoebills)

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

Ciconiiformes; order Ciconiiformes (order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises)