PHOENICOPTERIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phoenicopteridae mean? 

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

1. flamingos

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOENICOPTERIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flamingos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Phoenicopteridae; Phoenicopteridae

Hypernyms ("Phoenicopteridae" 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 "Phoenicopteridae"):

flamingo (large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes)

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

Ciconiiformes; order Ciconiiformes (order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises)