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GLAREOLIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Glareolidae mean?
• GLAREOLIDAE (noun)
The noun GLAREOLIDAE has 1 sense:
1. Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers
Familiarity information: GLAREOLIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Glareolidae; Glareolidae
Hypernyms ("Glareolidae" 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 "Glareolidae"):
genus Glareola; Glareola (type genus of the Glareolidae: the pratincoles)
courser (swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles)
Cursorius; genus Cursorius; genus Pluvianus; Pluvianus (coursers)
Holonyms ("Glareolidae" is a member of...):
Charadrii; suborder Charadrii (shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews)
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