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DIOMEDEIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Diomedeidae mean?
• DIOMEDEIDAE (noun)
The noun DIOMEDEIDAE has 1 sense:
1. albatrosses
Familiarity information: DIOMEDEIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Albatrosses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Diomedeidae; family Diomedeidae
Hypernyms ("Diomedeidae" 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 "Diomedeidae"):
albatross; mollymawk (large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight)
genus Diomedea (type of the Diomedeidae)
Holonyms ("Diomedeidae" is a member of...):
order Procellariiformes; Procellariiformes (petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels)
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