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PELECANOIDIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pelecanoididae mean?
• PELECANOIDIDAE (noun)
The noun PELECANOIDIDAE has 1 sense:
1. diving petrels
Familiarity information: PELECANOIDIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Diving petrels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Pelecanoididae; Pelecanoididae
Hypernyms ("Pelecanoididae" 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 "Pelecanoididae"):
diving petrel (any of several small diving birds of southern hemisphere seas; somewhat resemble auks)
Holonyms ("Pelecanoididae" is a member of...):
order Procellariiformes; Procellariiformes (petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels)
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