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RALLIDAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Rallidae mean?

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

1. rails; crakes; gallinules; coots

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

Dictionary entry details

• RALLIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Rallidae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Rails; crakes; gallinules; coots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Rallidae; Rallidae

Hypernyms ("Rallidae" 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 "Rallidae"):

genus Notornis (a genus of Rallidae)

genus Porphyrula; Porphyrula (American purple gallinules)

genus Porphyrio; Porphyrio (Old World purple gallinules)

Gallinula; genus Gallinula (gallinules)

genus Porzana; Porzana (spotted crakes)

Crex; genus Crex (corncrakes)

Gallirallus; genus Gallirallus (rails of New Zealand)

rail (any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud)

Fulica; genus Fulica (coots)

Holonyms ("Rallidae" is a member of...):

Gruiformes; order Gruiformes (inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards)

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