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    FAMILY SCOLOPACIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchersplay

    Synonyms:

    family Scolopacidae; Scolopacidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Scolopacidae" 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 Scolopacidae"):

    genus Limosa; Limosa (godwits)

    genus Numenius; Numenius (curlews)

    genus Limnodromus; Limnodromus (dowitchers)

    genus Limnocryptes; Limnocryptes (snipe)

    Capella; Gallinago; genus Capella; genus Gallinago (snipes)

    genus Philohela; Philohela (American woodcocks)

    genus Scolopax; Scolopax (type of the Scolopacidae: Old World woodcocks)

    Catoptrophorus; genus Catoptrophorus (willet)

    genus Heteroscelus; Heteroscelus (tattlers)

    genus Philomachus; Philomachus (ruffs)

    Bartramia; genus Bartramia; Crocethia; genus Crocethia; Calidris; genus Calidris; genus Tringa; Tringa; Erolia; genus Erolia; Actitis; genus Actitis; Aphriza; genus Aphriza (a genus of Scolopacidae)

    sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)

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

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

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