FAMILY LANIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Laniidae mean? 

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

1. shrikes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY LANIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrikes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Laniidae; Laniidae

Hypernyms ("family Laniidae" 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 Laniidae"):

shrike (any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals)

genus Lanius; Lanius (type genus of the Laniidae: typical shrikes)

Malaconotinae; subfamily Malaconotinae (an African bush shrikes)

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

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