family bombycillidae

English Thesaurus

1. a family of birds of the suborder Oscines (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	:	bombycilla, genus bombycilla,
definition	:	waxwings (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	oscines, passeres, suborder oscines, suborder passeres,
definition	:	two names for the suborder of typical songbirds (noun.animal)