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FAMILY TROGLODYTIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Troglodytidae mean? 

FAMILY TROGLODYTIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY TROGLODYTIDAE has 1 sense:

1. wrensplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY TROGLODYTIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Wrens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Troglodytidae; Troglodytidae

Hypernyms ("family Troglodytidae" 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 Troglodytidae"):

jenny wren; wren (any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects)

genus Troglodytes; Troglodytes (type genus of the Troglodytidae)

Cistothorus; genus Cistothorus (marsh wrens)

genus Salpinctes; Salpinctes (a genus of Troglodytidae)

genus Thryothorus; Thryothorus (Carolina wrens)

Campylorhynchus; genus Campylorhynchus; genus Heleodytes; Heleodytes (alternative classifications for the cactus wrens)

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

order Passeriformes; Passeriformes (largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres)


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