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TROGLODYTIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wrens
Synonyms:
family Troglodytidae; Troglodytidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Troglodytidae" 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 "Troglodytidae"):
jenny wren; wren (any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects)
genus Troglodytes; Troglodytes (type genus of the Troglodytidae)
Cistothorus; genus Cistothorus (marsh wrens)
genus Salpinctes; Salpinctes (a genus of Troglodytidae)
genus Thryothorus; Thryothorus (Carolina wrens)
Campylorhynchus; genus Campylorhynchus; genus Heleodytes; Heleodytes (alternative classifications for the cactus wrens)
Holonyms ("Troglodytidae" is a member of...):
order Passeriformes; Passeriformes (largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres)
