FAMILY DIOMEDEIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Diomedeidae mean? 

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

1. albatrosses

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY DIOMEDEIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Albatrosses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Diomedeidae; family Diomedeidae

Hypernyms ("family 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 "family 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 ("family Diomedeidae" is a member of...):

order Procellariiformes; Procellariiformes (petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels)