HEMIPROCNIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hemiprocnidae mean? 

• HEMIPROCNIDAE (noun)
  The noun HEMIPROCNIDAE has 1 sense:

1. tree swifts

  Familiarity information: HEMIPROCNIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEMIPROCNIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tree swifts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Hemiprocnidae; Hemiprocnidae

Hypernyms ("Hemiprocnidae" 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 "Hemiprocnidae"):

crested swift; tree swift (birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees)

Holonyms ("Hemiprocnidae" is a member of...):

Apodiformes; order Apodiformes (swifts; hummingbirds)