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Definition of the noun alcidae
What does alcidae mean as a name of something?
noun - plural: -
- web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas: auks; puffins; guillemots; murres; etc.
- lexical domain: Animals - nouns denoting animals
- synonym of Alcidae: family Alcidae
- more generic term: bird family = a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
- member of: Charadriiformes / order Charadriiformes = large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds
- members:
- auk = black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas
- genus Alca / Alca = type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill
- genus Plautus / Plautus = a genus of Alcidae
- genus Pinguinus / Pinguinus = great auk
- genus Cepphus / Cepphus = a genus of birds including: guillemots
- genus Uria / Uria = murres
- puffin = any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills
- genus Fratercula / Fratercula = puffins
- genus Lunda / Lunda = puffins
Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for Alcidae
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The Canadian Encyclopedia (1999)
The Canadian Encyclopediaby James H. Marsh
Penelope Reed Doob Auk Alcidae is a family of highly specialized SEABIRDS that contains ...
Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia (2013)
by Douglas M. Considine, Glenn D. Considine
Alcidae Sand-grouse (17) Pteroclidae Muscovy (12) Anatidae Sandpiper ...
Encyclopedia Britannica (1922)
A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information by Hugh Chisholm
DIVER, a name that when applied to a bird is commonly used in a sense even more vague than that of loom, several of the sea ducks or Fuligulinae and mergansers being frequently so called, to say nothing of certain of the auks or Alcidae ...
Word Parts Dictionary (2000)
Standard and Reverse Listings of Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots and Combining Forms, 2d ed. by Michael J. Sheehan
base auk (Alcidae, alcidine) alea- [L. alea, game of chance] base dice; chance (aleatoric, aleatory) alectoro-,alectryo- [Gr. alektrion, cock] comb cock; rooster ...
Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (1997)
by John A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner
family name Alcidae, f. mod.L. genus name Alca (adopted by C. Linnaeus in ...
Antarctica and the Arctic Circle: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Earth's Polar Regions [2 volumes] (2014)
by Andrew Jon Hund
and auks (Alcidae). Of these families, the one petrel (Northern Fulmar, ...
The Encyclopedia of New York State (2005)
by Peter R. Eisenstadt, Laura-Eve Moss
Anhingidae Fregatidae Ardeidae Threskiomithidae Ciconiidae Cathartidae Anatidae Accipitridae Falconidae Phasianidae Odontophoridae Rallidae Gruidae Charadriidae Haematopodidae Recurvirostridae Scolopacidae Laridae Alcidae ...
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Scrabble value of A1L1C3I1D2A1E1
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