FAMILY MELIPHAGIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Meliphagidae mean? 

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

1. honey eaters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY MELIPHAGIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Honey eaters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Meliphagidae; Meliphagidae

Hypernyms ("family Meliphagidae" 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 Meliphagidae"):

honey eater; honeysucker (Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar)

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

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