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SPHENISCIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Spheniscidae mean?
• SPHENISCIDAE (noun)
The noun SPHENISCIDAE has 1 sense:
1. comprising all existing penguins
Familiarity information: SPHENISCIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Comprising all existing penguins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Spheniscidae; Spheniscidae
Hypernyms ("Spheniscidae" 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 "Spheniscidae"):
penguin (short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers)
genus Pygoscelis; Pygoscelis (a genus of Spheniscidae)
Aptenodytes; genus Aptenodytes (large penguins)
genus Spheniscus; Spheniscus (type genus of the Spheniscidae: jackass penguins)
Eudyptes; genus Eudyptes (rock hoppers)
Holonyms ("Spheniscidae" is a member of...):
order Sphenisciformes; Sphenisciformes (penguins)
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