FAMILY GLAREOLIDAE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers

Synonyms:

family Glareolidae; Glareolidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Glareolidae" 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 Glareolidae"):

genus Glareola; Glareola (type genus of the Glareolidae: the pratincoles)

courser (swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles)

Cursorius; genus Cursorius; genus Pluvianus; Pluvianus (coursers)

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

Charadrii; suborder Charadrii (shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews)