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FAMILY BURHINIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Burhinidae mean?
• FAMILY BURHINIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY BURHINIDAE has 1 sense:
1. large wading birds resembling the plovers: stone curlews
Familiarity information: FAMILY BURHINIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large wading birds resembling the plovers: stone curlews
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Burhinidae; family Burhinidae
Hypernyms ("family Burhinidae" 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 Burhinidae"):
Burhinus; genus Burhinus (type genus of the Burhinidae: stone curlews)
Holonyms ("family Burhinidae" is a member of...):
Charadrii; suborder Charadrii (shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews)
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