| NOUN | animal | Plataleidae, family Plataleidae | spoonbills |
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| Meaning | spoonbills. | |
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| Synonym | family Plataleidae | |
| 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 |
| Members | Platalea, genus Platalea | type genus of the Plataleidae |
| spoonbill | wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon | |
| Broader | bird family | A family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
| Spanish | familia Plataleidae, Plataleidae | |
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