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FAMILY PTILONORHYNCHIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bowerbirds
Synonyms:
family Ptilonorhynchidae; Ptilonorhynchidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Ptilonorhynchidae" 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 Ptilonorhynchidae"):
bowerbird; catbird (any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females)
genus Ptilonorhynchus; Ptilonorhynchus (type genus of the Ptilonorhynchidae)
Chlamydera; genus Chlamydera (a genus of Ptilonorhynchidae)
Holonyms ("family Ptilonorhynchidae" is a member of...):
Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)
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