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FAMILY IBIDIIDAE

• FAMILY IBIDIIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY IBIDIIDAE has 1 sense:

1. ibises

Familiarity information: FAMILY IBIDIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

• FAMILY IBIDIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Ibises

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Ibidiidae; family Threskiornithidae; Threskiornithidae

Hypernyms ("family Ibidiidae" 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 Ibidiidae"):

ibis (wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills)

genus Ibis (ibises)

genus Threskiornis; Threskiornis (type genus of the Threskiornithidae)

Holonyms ("family Ibidiidae" 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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