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Laridae

noun

gull family: gulls and terns

• Syn: ↑family Laridae

• Hypernyms: ↑bird family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lari, ↑suborder Lari

• Member Meronyms:

↑larid, ↑Larus, ↑genus Larus, ↑Pagophila, ↑genus Pagophila, ↑Rissa, ↑genus Rissa, ↑Sterninae, ↑subfamily Sterninae

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\\-rəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Larus, type genus + -idae

: a family (suborder Lari) including the gulls and terns and sometimes the jaegers — compare stercorariidae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.