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FAMILY MENURIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Menuridae mean?
• FAMILY MENURIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY MENURIDAE has 1 sense:
1. lyrebirds
Familiarity information: FAMILY MENURIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lyrebirds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Menuridae; Menuridae
Hypernyms ("family Menuridae" 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 Menuridae"):
genus Menura; Menura (type and sole genus of the family Menuridae)
Holonyms ("family Menuridae" is a member of...):
Menurae; suborder Menurae (lyrebirds and scrubbirds)
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