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FAMILY CRACIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Curassows; guans; chachalacas
Synonyms:
Cracidae; family Cracidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Cracidae" 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 Cracidae"):
guan (any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food)
Crax; genus Crax (type genus of the Cracidae: curassows)
genus Penelope; Penelope (a genus of guans (turkey-like arboreal birds valued as game and food birds))
genus Pipile; Pipile (genus of large crested guans (the piping guans))
genus Ortalis; Ortalis (chachalacas)
Holonyms ("family Cracidae" is a member of...):
Galliformes; order Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins)
