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FAMILY PITTIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Pittas

Synonyms:

family Pittidae; Pittidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Pittidae" 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 Pittidae"):

genus Pitta (type genus of the Pittidae; a large genus of birds of southern Asia and Australia and adjacent islands)

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

superfamily Tyrannidae; Tyrannidae (New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada)

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