MELEAGRIDIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Meleagrididae mean? 

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

1. turkeys and some extinct forms

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MELEAGRIDIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turkeys and some extinct forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Meleagrididae; Meleagrididae

Hypernyms ("Meleagrididae" 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 "Meleagrididae"):

genus Meleagris; Meleagris (type genus of the Meleagrididae: wild and domestic turkeys)

Agriocharis; genus Agriocharis (a genus of birds of the family Meleagrididae including the ocellated turkey)

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

Galliformes; order Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins)