PLATALEIDAE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Plataleidae mean? • PLATALEIDAE (noun)
The noun PLATALEIDAE has 1 sense:
1. spoonbills
Familiarity information: PLATALEIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PLATALEIDAE (noun)
Meaning:
Spoonbills
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Plataleidae; Plataleidae
Hypernyms ("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 "Plataleidae"):
spoonbill (wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon)
genus Platalea; Platalea (type genus of the Plataleidae)
Holonyms ("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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