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FAMILY PLOCEIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ploceidae mean?
• FAMILY PLOCEIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY PLOCEIDAE has 1 sense:
1. weaverbirds
Familiarity information: FAMILY PLOCEIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Weaverbirds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Ploceidae; Ploceidae
Hypernyms ("family Ploceidae" 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 Ploceidae"):
weaver; weaver finch; weaverbird (finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests)
genus Ploceus; Ploceus (type genus of the Ploceidae)
genus Vidua; Vidua (whydahs)
genus Padda; Padda (a genus of Ploceidae)
Estrilda; genus Estrilda (avadavats)
genus Poephila; Poephila (grassfinches)
Holonyms ("family Ploceidae" is a member of...):
Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)
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