sterninae

English Thesaurus

1. terns (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	:	tern,
definition	:	small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus sterna, sterna,
definition	:	a genus of Sterninae (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family laridae, laridae,
definition	:	gull family: gulls and terns (noun.animal)