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UPUPIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hoopoes

Synonyms:

family Upupidae; Upupidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Upupidae" 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 "Upupidae"):

genus Upupa; Upupa (type genus of the Upupidae)

hoopoe; hoopoo (any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill)

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

Coraciiformes; order Coraciiformes (rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies)

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