LARIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Laridae mean? 

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

1. gull family: gulls and terns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gull family: gulls and terns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Laridae; Laridae

Hypernyms ("Laridae" 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 "Laridae"):

larid (long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family)

genus Larus; Larus (type genus of the Laridae)

genus Pagophila; Pagophila; genus Rissa; Rissa (a genus of Laridae)

Sterninae; subfamily Sterninae (terns)

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

Lari; suborder Lari (gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers)