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FAMILY PLATALEIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Spoonbills

Synonyms:

family Plataleidae; Plataleidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Plataleidae" 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 Plataleidae"):

spoonbill (wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon)

genus Platalea; Platalea (type genus of the Plataleidae)

Holonyms ("family Plataleidae" 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)

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