DENDROCOLAPTIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dendrocolaptidae mean? 

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

1. woodhewers or woodcreepers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENDROCOLAPTIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Woodhewers or woodcreepers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Dendrocolaptidae; family Dendrocolaptidae

Hypernyms ("Dendrocolaptidae" 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 "Dendrocolaptidae"):

Dendrocolaptes; genus Dendrocolaptes (type genus of the Dendrocolaptidae)

tree creeper; wood-creeper; woodcreeper; woodhewer (any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers)

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

suborder Tyranni; Tyranni (New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers)