FAMILY PIPIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Pipidae mean? 

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

1. tongueless frogs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PIPIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tongueless frogs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Pipidae; Pipidae

Hypernyms ("family Pipidae" is a kind of...):

amphibian family (any family of amphibians)

Meronyms (members of "family Pipidae"):

tongueless frog (almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America)

genus Pipa; Pipa (type genus of the Pipidae)

genus Xenopus; Xenopus (an African clawed frog; in some classifications made the type genus of a separate family Xenopodidae)

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

Anura; Batrachia; order Anura; order Batrachia; order Salientia; Salientia (frogs, toads, tree toads)