GRUIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gruidae mean? 

• GRUIDAE (noun)
  The noun GRUIDAE has 1 sense:

1. cranes

  Familiarity information: GRUIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRUIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cranes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Gruidae; Gruidae

Hypernyms ("Gruidae" 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 "Gruidae"):

crane (large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world)

genus Grus; Grus (type genus of the Gruidae: typical cranes)

Holonyms ("Gruidae" is a member of...):

Gruiformes; order Gruiformes (inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards)