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COEREBIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Coerebidae mean?
• COEREBIDAE (noun)
The noun COEREBIDAE has 1 sense:
1. the honeycreepers
Familiarity information: COEREBIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The honeycreepers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Coerebidae; Dacninae; family Coerebidae; family Dacninae
Hypernyms ("Coerebidae" 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 "Coerebidae"):
honeycreeper (small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar)
Coereba; genus Coereba (type genus of the Coerebidae)
Holonyms ("Coerebidae" is a member of...):
Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)
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