HyperDic: family_plataleidae

English > 1 sense of the expression family Plataleidae:
NOUNanimalfamily Plataleidae, Plataleidaespoonbills
English > family Plataleidae: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningspoonbills.
SynonymPlataleidae
Member ofCiconiiformes, order CiconiiformesOrder of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet
MembersPlatalea, genus Plataleatype genus of the Plataleidae
spoonbillwading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon
Broaderbird familyA family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
Spanishfamilia Plataleidae, Plataleidae

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