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FAMILY BURHINIDAE

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Meaning:

Large wading birds resembling the plovers: stone curlews

Synonyms:

Burhinidae; family Burhinidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Burhinidae" 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 "family Burhinidae"):

Burhinus; genus Burhinus (type genus of the Burhinidae: stone curlews)

Holonyms ("family Burhinidae" is a member of...):

Charadrii; suborder Charadrii (shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews)

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