FAMILY PTILONORHYNCHIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ptilonorhynchidae mean? 

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

1. bowerbirds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PTILONORHYNCHIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bowerbirds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Ptilonorhynchidae; Ptilonorhynchidae

Hypernyms ("family Ptilonorhynchidae" 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 Ptilonorhynchidae"):

bowerbird; catbird (any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females)

genus Ptilonorhynchus; Ptilonorhynchus (type genus of the Ptilonorhynchidae)

Chlamydera; genus Chlamydera (a genus of Ptilonorhynchidae)

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

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