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    FAMILY CRACIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Curassows; guans; chachalacasplay

    Synonyms:

    Cracidae; family Cracidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Cracidae" 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 Cracidae"):

    guan (any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food)

    Crax; genus Crax (type genus of the Cracidae: curassows)

    genus Penelope; Penelope (a genus of guans (turkey-like arboreal birds valued as game and food birds))

    genus Pipile; Pipile (genus of large crested guans (the piping guans))

    genus Ortalis; Ortalis (chachalacas)

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

    Galliformes; order Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins)

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