FAMILY DINORNITHIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Dinornithidae mean? 

• FAMILY DINORNITHIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY DINORNITHIDAE has 1 sense:

1. moas

  Familiarity information: FAMILY DINORNITHIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY DINORNITHIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Dinornithidae; family Dinornithidae

Hypernyms ("family Dinornithidae" 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 Dinornithidae"):

Dinornis; genus Dinornis (type genus of the Dinornithidae: large moas)

moa (extinct flightless bird of New Zealand)

genus Anomalopteryx (small moas)

Holonyms ("family Dinornithidae" is a member of...):

Dinornithiformes; order Dinornithiformes (a ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand)