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FAMILY COTINGIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Cotingidae mean?
• FAMILY COTINGIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY COTINGIDAE has 1 sense:
1. cotingas; umbrella birds
Familiarity information: FAMILY COTINGIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cotingas; umbrella birds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Cotingidae; family Cotingidae
Hypernyms ("family Cotingidae" 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 "family Cotingidae"):
genus Cotinga (type genus of the Cotingidae: cotingas)
genus Rupicola; Rupicola (cock of the rocks)
genus Procnias; Procnias (bellbirds)
Cephalopterus; genus Cephalopterus (a genus of Cotingidae)
Holonyms ("family Cotingidae" is a member of...):
superfamily Tyrannidae; Tyrannidae (New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada)
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