FAMILY PLATALEIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Plataleidae mean? 

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

1. spoonbills

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PLATALEIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spoonbills

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Plataleidae; Plataleidae

Hypernyms ("family Plataleidae" 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 Plataleidae"):

spoonbill (wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon)

genus Platalea; Platalea (type genus of the Plataleidae)

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

Ciconiiformes; order Ciconiiformes (order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises)