FAMILY PROCELLARIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Procellariidae mean? 

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

1. petrels; fulmars; shearwaters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PROCELLARIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Petrels; fulmars; shearwaters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Procellariidae; Procellariidae

Hypernyms ("family Procellariidae" 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 Procellariidae"):

petrel (relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land)

genus Procellaria; Procellaria (type genus of the Procellariidae)

genus Macronectes; Macronectes (giant petrels)

Fulmarus; genus Fulmarus (fulmars)

genus Puffinus; Puffinus (shearwaters)

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

order Procellariiformes; Procellariiformes (petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels)