MUSCICAPIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Muscicapidae mean? 

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

1. Old World (true) flycatchers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSCICAPIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World (true) flycatchers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Muscicapidae; Muscicapidae

Hypernyms ("Muscicapidae" 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 "Muscicapidae"):

flycatcher; Old World flycatcher; true flycatcher (any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing)

genus Muscicapa; Muscicapa (type genus of the Muscicapidae)

genus Pachycephala; Pachycephala (arboreal insectivorous birds)

subfamily Turdinae; Turdinae (alternative classification for the thrushes)

subfamily Sylviinae; Sylviinae (alternative classification for the Old World warblers)

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

Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)