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FAMILY RALLIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rails; crakes; gallinules; coots
Synonyms:
family Rallidae; Rallidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Rallidae" 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 Rallidae"):
rail (any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud)
Gallirallus; genus Gallirallus (rails of New Zealand)
Crex; genus Crex (corncrakes)
genus Porzana; Porzana (spotted crakes)
Gallinula; genus Gallinula (gallinules)
genus Porphyrio; Porphyrio (Old World purple gallinules)
genus Porphyrula; Porphyrula (American purple gallinules)
genus Notornis (a genus of Rallidae)
Fulica; genus Fulica (coots)
Holonyms ("family Rallidae" is a member of...):
Gruiformes; order Gruiformes (inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards)
