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EURYLAIMIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eurylaimidae mean? 

EURYLAIMIDAE (noun)
  The noun EURYLAIMIDAE has 1 sense:

1. coextensive with the suborder Eurylaimiplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EURYLAIMIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Coextensive with the suborder Eurylaimi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Eurylaimidae; family Eurylaimidae

Hypernyms ("Eurylaimidae" 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 "Eurylaimidae"):

broadbill (small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills)

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

Eurylaimi; suborder Eurylaimi (broadbills)


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