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PITTIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pittidae mean?
• PITTIDAE (noun)
The noun PITTIDAE has 1 sense:
1. pittas
Familiarity information: PITTIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pittas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Pittidae; Pittidae
Hypernyms ("Pittidae" 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 "Pittidae"):
genus Pitta (type genus of the Pittidae; a large genus of birds of southern Asia and Australia and adjacent islands)
Holonyms ("Pittidae" is a member of...):
superfamily Tyrannidae; Tyrannidae (New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada)
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