BUCEPHALA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bucephala mean? 

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

1. buffleheads and goldeneyes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUCEPHALA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Buffleheads and goldeneyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bucephala; genus Bucephala

Hypernyms ("Bucephala" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Bucephala"):

Bucephela albeola; bufflehead; butterball; dipper (small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage)

Bucephela clangula; goldeneye; whistler (large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions)

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

Anatidae; family Anatidae (swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks)