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    FAMILY MELEAGRIDIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Turkeys and some extinct formsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Meleagrididae; Meleagrididae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Meleagrididae" 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 Meleagrididae"):

    genus Meleagris; Meleagris (type genus of the Meleagrididae: wild and domestic turkeys)

    Agriocharis; genus Agriocharis (a genus of birds of the family Meleagrididae including the ocellated turkey)

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

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

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