numidinae

1. 1.

   guinea fowl and related birds of Africa and Madagascar

   SynonymsNumididaesubfamily Numididaesubfamily Numidinae

   Broaderbird family

   Part ofPhasianidae

Other forms of numidinae

plural

numidinaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about numidinae

What does numidinae mean?

numidinae means "guinea fowl and related birds of Africa and Madagascar".

How many syllables are in numidinae?

numidinae has 4 syllables: nu-mi-di-nae. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for numidinae?

Close synonyms include Numididae, subfamily Numididae, subfamily Numidinae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is numidinae a common word?

numidinae is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.