DACNINAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dacninae mean? 

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

1. the honeycreepers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DACNINAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The honeycreepers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Coerebidae; Dacninae; family Coerebidae; family Dacninae

Hypernyms ("Dacninae" 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 "Dacninae"):

honeycreeper (small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar)

Coereba; genus Coereba (type genus of the Coerebidae)

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

Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)