PTEROCLIDIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pteroclididae mean? 

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

1. sandgrouses

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PTEROCLIDIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sandgrouses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Pteroclididae; Pteroclididae

Hypernyms ("Pteroclididae" 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 "Pteroclididae"):

sand grouse; sandgrouse (pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young)

genus Pterocles; Pterocles (type genus of the Pteroclididae)

genus Syrrhaptes; Syrrhaptes (a genus of Pteroclididae)

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

Columbiformes; order Columbiformes (sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires)