FAMILY HIRUNDINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Hirundinidae mean? 

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

1. swallows and martins

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY HIRUNDINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Swallows and martins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Hirundinidae; Hirundinidae

Hypernyms ("family Hirundinidae" 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 Hirundinidae"):

genus Hirundo; Hirundo (type genus of the Hirundinidae)

genus Iridoprocne; Iridoprocne; Delichon; genus Delichon; genus Riparia; Riparia; genus Progne; Progne (a genus of Hirundinidae)

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

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