GENUS EROLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Erolia mean? 

• GENUS EROLIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS EROLIA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of Scolopacidae

  Familiarity information: GENUS EROLIA used as a noun is very rare.

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• GENUS EROLIA (noun)

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Meaning:

A genus of Scolopacidae

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Erolia; genus Erolia

Hypernyms ("genus Erolia" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "genus Erolia"):

Erolia minutilla; least sandpiper; stint (smallest American sandpiper)

dunlin; Erolia alpina; red-backed sandpiper (small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions)

Holonyms ("genus Erolia" is a member of...):

family Scolopacidae; Scolopacidae (sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers)