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FAMILY PRUNELLIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Prunellidae mean?
• FAMILY PRUNELLIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY PRUNELLIDAE has 1 sense:
1. hedge sparrow
Familiarity information: FAMILY PRUNELLIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hedge sparrow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Prunellidae; Prunellidae
Hypernyms ("family Prunellidae" 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 Prunellidae"):
genus Prunella; Prunella (type genus of the Prunellidae)
Holonyms ("family Prunellidae" is a member of...):
Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)
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