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FAMILY PARADISAEIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Birds of paradise
Synonyms:
family Paradisaeidae; Paradisaeidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Paradisaeidae" 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 Paradisaeidae"):
bird of paradise (any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area)
genus Ptloris; Ptloris (a genus of Paradisaeidae)
Holonyms ("family Paradisaeidae" is a member of...):
Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)
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