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CRACTICIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cracticidae mean?
• CRACTICIDAE (noun)
The noun CRACTICIDAE has 1 sense:
1. Australian birds formerly included in the family Laniidae
Familiarity information: CRACTICIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Australian birds formerly included in the family Laniidae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Cracticidae; family Cracticidae
Hypernyms ("Cracticidae" 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 "Cracticidae"):
Australian magpie (black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies)
Cracticus; genus Cracticus (type genus of the Cracticidae: Australian butcherbirds)
genus Strepera; Strepera (bell magpies)
genus Gymnorhina; Gymnorhina (in some classifications placed in the family Laniidae: Australian piping crows)
Holonyms ("Cracticidae" is a member of...):
Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)
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