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    FAMILY GLAREOLIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursersplay

    Synonyms:

    family Glareolidae; Glareolidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Glareolidae" 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 Glareolidae"):

    genus Glareola; Glareola (type genus of the Glareolidae: the pratincoles)

    courser (swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles)

    Cursorius; genus Cursorius; genus Pluvianus; Pluvianus (coursers)

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

    Charadrii; suborder Charadrii (shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews)

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