FAMILY ARDEIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ardeidae mean? 

• FAMILY ARDEIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY ARDEIDAE has 1 sense:

1. herons; egrets; night herons; bitterns

  Familiarity information: FAMILY ARDEIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ARDEIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herons; egrets; night herons; bitterns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ardeidae; family Ardeidae

Hypernyms ("family Ardeidae" 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 "family Ardeidae"):

heron (grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill)

Ardea; genus Ardea (type genus of the Ardeidae: large New and Old World herons)

Egretta; genus Egretta (small Old and New World herons)

Casmerodius; genus Casmerodius (a white egrets)

Bubulcus; genus Bubulcus (small white egrets)

genus Nycticorax; Nycticorax (Old World night herons)

genus Nyctanassa; Nyctanassa (American night herons)

Cochlearius; genus Cochlearius (boatbills)

Botaurus; genus Botaurus; genus Ixobrychus; Ixobrychus (bitterns)

Holonyms ("family Ardeidae" is a member of...):

Ciconiiformes; order Ciconiiformes (order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises)