bird family

1. 1.

   a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

   Broaderfamily

   NarrowerStruthionidaeCasuaridaeApterygidaeRheidaeAepyornidaeDinornithidaeMeliphagidaePrunellidaeAlaudidaeMotacillidae

   Part ofVertebrata

Questions about bird family

What does bird family mean?

bird family means "a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings".

Is bird family a common word?

bird family is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.