FAMILY MELEAGRIDIDAE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Turkeys and some extinct forms

Synonyms:

family Meleagrididae; Meleagrididae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Meleagrididae" 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 Meleagrididae"):

genus Meleagris; Meleagris (type genus of the Meleagrididae: wild and domestic turkeys)

Agriocharis; genus Agriocharis (a genus of birds of the family Meleagrididae including the ocellated turkey)

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

Galliformes; order Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins)