Definition of Ploceidae

1. Noun. Weaverbirds.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ploceidae

Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis
Plimmer's bodies
Plimsoll line
Plimsoll mark
Plimsoll marks
Plinian
Plinian eruption
Plinko
Pliny
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Younger
Pliocene
Pliocene epoch
Plip
Plips
Ploceidae (current term)
Ploceus
Ploceus philippinus
Plotinian
Plotinic
Plotinist
Plotinists
Plotinus
Plott hound
Plotz bacillus
Plough Monday
Plough Sunday
Plovdiv
Plow Monday

Literary usage of Ploceidae

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... though the grounds for taking it are such as could not be held valid in any other order than that of Passeres. The Ploceidae are closely related to the ..."

2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... and Columbidae (pigeons)-—although widely distributed, are here unusually abundant and varied, and (except in the case of the Ploceidae) better ..."

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