FAMILY PELECANOIDIDAE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Diving petrels

Synonyms:

family Pelecanoididae; Pelecanoididae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Pelecanoididae" 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 Pelecanoididae"):

diving petrel (any of several small diving birds of southern hemisphere seas; somewhat resemble auks)

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

order Procellariiformes; Procellariiformes (petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels)