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FAMILY MELEAGRIDIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Meleagrididae mean?
• FAMILY MELEAGRIDIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY MELEAGRIDIDAE has 1 sense:
1. turkeys and some extinct forms
Familiarity information: FAMILY MELEAGRIDIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turkeys and some extinct forms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Meleagrididae; Meleagrididae
Hypernyms ("family Meleagrididae" 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 Meleagrididae"):
genus Meleagris; Meleagris (type genus of the Meleagrididae: wild and domestic turkeys)
Agriocharis; genus Agriocharis (a genus of birds of the family Meleagrididae including the ocellated turkey)
Holonyms ("family Meleagrididae" is a member of...):
Galliformes; order Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins)
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