FAMILY DREPANIDIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Drepanididae mean? 

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

1. Hawaiian honeycreepers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY DREPANIDIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hawaiian honeycreepers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Drepanididae; family Drepanididae

Hypernyms ("family Drepanididae" 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 Drepanididae"):

Hawaiian honeycreeper; honeycreeper (small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands)

Drepanis; genus Drepanis (a genus of Drepanididae)

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

Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)