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FAMILY PHOENICULIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Phoeniculidae mean?
• FAMILY PHOENICULIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY PHOENICULIDAE has 1 sense:
1. wood hoopoes
Familiarity information: FAMILY PHOENICULIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wood hoopoes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Phoeniculidae; Phoeniculidae
Hypernyms ("family Phoeniculidae" 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 Phoeniculidae"):
genus Phoeniculus; Phoeniculus (type and only genus of the family Phoeniculidae)
Holonyms ("family Phoeniculidae" is a member of...):
Coraciiformes; order Coraciiformes (rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies)
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