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Tytonidae

noun

comprising only the barn owls

• Syn: ↑family Tytonidae

• Hypernyms: ↑bird family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Strigiformes, ↑order Strigiformes

• Member Meronyms: ↑Tyto, ↑genus Tyto

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\\tīˈtänəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Tyton-, Tyto, type genus + -idae

: a monotypic family of owls comprising the barn owls and being distinguished by an unnotched sternum and large clavicles fused with it — compare bubonidae, strigidae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.