Definition of Pittidae

1. Noun. Pittas.

Exact synonyms: Family Pittidae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Superfamily Tyrannidae, Tyrannidae
Member holonyms: Genus Pitta

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pittidae

Pitjantjara
Pitjantjatjara
Pitkern
Pitocin
Pitot-static tube
Pitot tube
Pitres' area
Pitressin
Pitt
Pitt the Elder
Pitt the Younger
Pitta-Pitta
Pitta Pitta
Pittacus
Pittidae
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh of the South
Pittsburgh pneumonia
Pittsburgh pneumonia agent
Pittsburghese
Pittsfield
Pituophis
Pituophis melanoleucus
Pitymys
Pitymys pinetorum
Pityrogramma
Pityrogramma argentea
Pityrogramma calomelanos
Pityrogramma calomelanos aureoflava

Literary usage of Pittidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"... much weight may have been given to certain anatomical characters and that even the structure of the syrinx in the pittidae may not necessarily indicate ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"They are now placed as a separate family pittidae of the Clama tores division of ... Placed originally among the pittidae, but now created to form an allied ..."

3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... the longest tailed and most elegantly marked of the pittidae ... are also well developed; as well as the pittidae, ..."

4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"The young are apparently spotted, unlike those of the pittidae, which resemble the adults. Fam. III. ..."

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