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SUBORDER MENURAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does suborder Menurae mean?
• SUBORDER MENURAE (noun)
The noun SUBORDER MENURAE has 1 sense:
1. lyrebirds and scrubbirds
Familiarity information: SUBORDER MENURAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lyrebirds and scrubbirds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Menurae; suborder Menurae
Hypernyms ("suborder Menurae" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "suborder Menurae"):
family Menuridae; Menuridae (lyrebirds)
Atrichornithidae; family Atrichornithidae (scrubbirds)
Holonyms ("suborder Menurae" is a member of...):
order Passeriformes; Passeriformes (largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres)
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