FAMILY PITTIDAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Pittidae mean? 

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

1. pittas

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PITTIDAE (noun)

Meaning:

Pittas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Pittidae; Pittidae

Hypernyms ("family Pittidae" 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 Pittidae"):

genus Pitta (type genus of the Pittidae; a large genus of birds of southern Asia and Australia and adjacent islands)

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

superfamily Tyrannidae; Tyrannidae (New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada)