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PITTIDAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Pittidae mean?

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

1. pittas

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

Dictionary entry details

• PITTIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Pittidae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Pittas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Pittidae; Pittidae

Hypernyms ("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 "Pittidae"):

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

Holonyms ("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)

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