family meleagrididae

English Thesaurus

1. turkeys and some extinct forms (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bird family,
definition	:	a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus meleagris, meleagris,
definition	:	type genus of the Meleagrididae: wild and domestic turkeys (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	agriocharis, genus agriocharis,
definition	:	a genus of birds of the family Meleagrididae including the ocellated turkey (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	galliformes, order galliformes,
definition	:	pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins (noun.animal)