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FAMILY DACNINAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Dacninae mean?
• FAMILY DACNINAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY DACNINAE has 1 sense:
1. the honeycreepers
Familiarity information: FAMILY DACNINAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The honeycreepers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Coerebidae; Dacninae; family Coerebidae; family Dacninae
Hypernyms ("family Dacninae" 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 Dacninae"):
honeycreeper (small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar)
Coereba; genus Coereba (type genus of the Coerebidae)
Holonyms ("family Dacninae" is a member of...):
Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)
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