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    FAMILY RALLIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Rails; crakes; gallinules; cootsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Rallidae; Rallidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family 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 "family Rallidae"):

    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)

    Gallirallus; genus Gallirallus (rails of New Zealand)

    Crex; genus Crex (corncrakes)

    genus Porzana; Porzana (spotted crakes)

    Gallinula; genus Gallinula (gallinules)

    genus Porphyrio; Porphyrio (Old World purple gallinules)

    genus Porphyrula; Porphyrula (American purple gallinules)

    genus Notornis (a genus of Rallidae)

    Fulica; genus Fulica (coots)

    Holonyms ("family 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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