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Caprimulgidae

noun

goatsuckers

• Syn: ↑family Caprimulgidae

• Hypernyms: ↑bird family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Caprimulgiformes, ↑order Caprimulgiformes

• Member Meronyms:

↑goatsucker, ↑nightjar, ↑caprimulgid, ↑Caprimulgus, ↑genus Caprimulgus, ↑Chordeiles, ↑genus Chordeiles, ↑Phalaenoptilus, ↑genus Phalaenoptilus

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\\-əˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Caprimulgus, type genus (from Latin, milker of goats, goatsucker, from capri- + -mulgus, from mulgēre to milk) + -idae — more at milk

: a family of birds with a deeply cleft broad bill comprising the goatsuckers and constituting with the frogmouths a suborder of the order Caprimulgiformes

Useful english dictionary. 2012.