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FAMILY CICONIIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Storks
Synonyms:
Ciconiidae; family Ciconiidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Ciconiidae" 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 Ciconiidae"):
stork (large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage)
Ciconia; genus Ciconia (type genus of the Ciconiidae: European storks)
genus Leptoptilus; Leptoptilus (adjutant birds and marabous)
Anastomus; genus Anastomus (openbills)
genus Jabiru (jabirus)
Ephippiorhynchus; genus Ephippiorhynchus (saddlebills)
genus Xenorhyncus; Xenorhyncus (East Indian and Australian storks)
genus Mycteria; Mycteria (a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis)
Holonyms ("family Ciconiidae" is a member of...):
Ciconiiformes; order Ciconiiformes (order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises)
