FAMILY PARADISAEIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Paradisaeidae mean? 

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

1. birds of paradise

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PARADISAEIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Birds of paradise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Paradisaeidae; Paradisaeidae

Hypernyms ("family Paradisaeidae" 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 Paradisaeidae"):

bird of paradise (any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area)

genus Ptloris; Ptloris (a genus of Paradisaeidae)

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

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