FAMILY STURNIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Sturnidae mean? 

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

1. Old World starlings

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY STURNIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World starlings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Sturnidae; Sturnidae

Hypernyms ("family Sturnidae" 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 Sturnidae"):

starling (gregarious birds native to the Old World)

genus Sturnus; Sturnus (type genus of the Sturnidae: common starlings)

Acridotheres; genus Acridotheres; genus Gracula; Gracula (mynas)

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

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