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PIPILE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pipile mean?
• PIPILE (noun)
The noun PIPILE has 1 sense:
1. genus of large crested guans (the piping guans)
Familiarity information: PIPILE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of large crested guans (the piping guans)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Pipile; Pipile
Hypernyms ("Pipile" is a kind of...):
bird genus (a genus of birds)
Meronyms (members of "Pipile"):
piping guan (a kind of guan)
Holonyms ("Pipile" is a member of...):
Cracidae; family Cracidae (curassows; guans; chachalacas)
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