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    FAMILY PHOENICOPTERIDAE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Flamingosplay

    Synonyms:

    family Phoenicopteridae; Phoenicopteridae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Phoenicopteridae" 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 Phoenicopteridae"):

    flamingo (large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes)

    Holonyms ("family Phoenicopteridae" 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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