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BALAENICIPITIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Balaenicipitidae mean?
• BALAENICIPITIDAE (noun)
The noun BALAENICIPITIDAE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BALAENICIPITIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shoebills
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Balaenicipitidae; family Balaenicipitidae
Hypernyms ("Balaenicipitidae" 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 "Balaenicipitidae"):
Balaeniceps; genus Balaeniceps (type genus of the Balaenicipitidae: shoebills)
Holonyms ("Balaenicipitidae" 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)
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