FAMILY ICTERIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Icteridae mean? 

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

1. American orioles; American blackbirds; bobolinks; meadowlarks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ICTERIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American orioles; American blackbirds; bobolinks; meadowlarks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Icteridae; Icteridae

Hypernyms ("family Icteridae" 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 Icteridae"):

American oriole; New World oriole; oriole (American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow)

genus Icterus; Icterus (type genus of the Icteridae)

genus Sturnella; Sturnella (a genus of passerine birds including the meadowlarks)

Cacicus; genus Cacicus (a genus of tropical American orioles)

Dolichonyx; genus Dolichonyx (bobolinks)

genus Quiscalus; Quiscalus (grackles)

Euphagus; genus Euphagus (a genus of Icteridae)

genus Molothrus; Molothrus (cowbirds)

Agelaius; genus Agelaius (red-winged blackbirds)

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

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