FAMILY ARTAMIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Artamidae mean? 

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

1. wood swallows

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ARTAMIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wood swallows

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Artamidae; family Artamidae

Hypernyms ("family Artamidae" 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 Artamidae"):

Artamus; genus Artamus (type genus of the Artamidae)

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

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