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UPUPIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Upupidae mean?
• UPUPIDAE (noun)
The noun UPUPIDAE has 1 sense:
1. hoopoes
Familiarity information: UPUPIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hoopoes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Upupidae; Upupidae
Hypernyms ("Upupidae" 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 "Upupidae"):
genus Upupa; Upupa (type genus of the Upupidae)
hoopoe; hoopoo (any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill)
Holonyms ("Upupidae" is a member of...):
Coraciiformes; order Coraciiformes (rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies)
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