PHOENICULIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phoeniculidae mean? 

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

1. wood hoopoes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOENICULIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wood hoopoes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Phoeniculidae; Phoeniculidae

Hypernyms ("Phoeniculidae" 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 "Phoeniculidae"):

genus Phoeniculus; Phoeniculus (type and only genus of the family Phoeniculidae)

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

Coraciiformes; order Coraciiformes (rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies)