TURNICIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Turnicidae mean? 

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

1. small Old World birds resembling but not related to true quail

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURNICIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small Old World birds resembling but not related to true quail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Turnicidae; Turnicidae

Hypernyms ("Turnicidae" 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 "Turnicidae"):

genus Turnix; Turnix (type genus of the Turnicidae: button quail)

genus Pedionomus; Pedionomus (plain wanderer)

Holonyms ("Turnicidae" 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)