PHALAROPIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phalaropidae mean? 

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

1. phalaropes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHALAROPIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Phalaropes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Phalaropidae; Phalaropidae

Hypernyms ("Phalaropidae" 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 "Phalaropidae"):

phalarope (small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics)

genus Phalaropus; Phalaropus (type genus of the Phalaropidae: phalaropes)

genus Lobipes; Lobipes; genus Steganopus; Steganopus (a genus of Phalaropidae)

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

Charadrii; suborder Charadrii (shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews)