FAMILY CICONIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ciconiidae mean? 

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

1. storks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY CICONIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Storks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ciconiidae; family Ciconiidae

Hypernyms ("family Ciconiidae" 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 Ciconiidae"):

stork (large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage)

Ciconia; genus Ciconia (type genus of the Ciconiidae: European storks)

genus Leptoptilus; Leptoptilus (adjutant birds and marabous)

Anastomus; genus Anastomus (openbills)

genus Jabiru (jabirus)

Ephippiorhynchus; genus Ephippiorhynchus (saddlebills)

genus Xenorhyncus; Xenorhyncus (East Indian and Australian storks)

genus Mycteria; Mycteria (a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis)

Holonyms ("family Ciconiidae" 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)