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FAMILY PLATALEIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spoonbills
Synonyms:
family Plataleidae; Plataleidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Plataleidae" 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 Plataleidae"):
spoonbill (wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon)
genus Platalea; Platalea (type genus of the Plataleidae)
Holonyms ("family Plataleidae" is a member of...):
Ciconiiformes; order Ciconiiformes (order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises)
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