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Charadriidae
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | Charadriidae - plover familyfamily Charadriidaebird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wingsCharadrii, suborder Charadrii - shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlewsplover - any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipersCharadrius, genus Charadrius - type genus of the Charadriidae: ploversgenus Pluvialis, Pluvialis - golden ploversgenus Vanellus, Vanellus - Eurasian lapwingsArenaria, genus Arenaria - turnstones |
Charadriidae
Charadriidae[kə·rə′drī·ə‚dē] (vertebrate zoology) The plovers, a family of birds in the superfamily Charadrioidea. Charadriidae a family of birds of the order Charadriiformes. The family contains almost all the genera included in the suborder, for example, Charadrius, Vanellus, Haematopus, Numenius, Recurvirostra, Totanus, Tringa, and Rostratula. Of the 160 species, 75 are found in the USSR. Some ornithologists place the Haematopus, Ibidorhyncha, Rostratula, and Recurvirostra into a separate family. Charadriidae
Synonyms for Charadriidaenoun plover familySynonymsRelated Words- bird family
- Charadrii
- suborder Charadrii
- plover
- Charadrius
- genus Charadrius
- genus Pluvialis
- Pluvialis
- genus Vanellus
- Vanellus
- Arenaria
- genus Arenaria
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