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TYTONIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Comprising only the barn owls

Synonyms:

family Tytonidae; Tytonidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Tytonidae" 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 "Tytonidae"):

genus Tyto; Tyto (type and only genus of the family Tytonidae)

Holonyms ("Tytonidae" is a member of...):

order Strigiformes; Strigiformes (owls)

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