FAMILY GLAREOLIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Glareolidae mean? 

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

1. Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY GLAREOLIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Glareolidae; Glareolidae

Hypernyms ("family Glareolidae" 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 Glareolidae"):

genus Glareola; Glareola (type genus of the Glareolidae: the pratincoles)

courser (swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles)

Cursorius; genus Cursorius; genus Pluvianus; Pluvianus (coursers)

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

Charadrii; suborder Charadrii (shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews)