RALLIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rallidae mean? 

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

1. rails; crakes; gallinules; coots

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RALLIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rails; crakes; gallinules; coots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Rallidae; Rallidae

Hypernyms ("Rallidae" 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 "Rallidae"):

rail (any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud)

Gallirallus; genus Gallirallus (rails of New Zealand)

Crex; genus Crex (corncrakes)

genus Porzana; Porzana (spotted crakes)

Gallinula; genus Gallinula (gallinules)

genus Porphyrio; Porphyrio (Old World purple gallinules)

genus Porphyrula; Porphyrula (American purple gallinules)

genus Notornis (a genus of Rallidae)

Fulica; genus Fulica (coots)

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

Gruiformes; order Gruiformes (inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards)