Definition of Family Drepanididae

1. Noun. Hawaiian honeycreepers.

Exact synonyms: Drepanididae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Oscines, Passeres, Suborder Oscines, Suborder Passeres
Member holonyms: Hawaiian Honeycreeper, Honeycreeper, Drepanis, Genus Drepanis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Drepanididae

family Dicamptodontidae
family Dicranaceae
family Didelphidae
family Dilleniaceae
family Dinornithidae
family Diodontidae
family Diomedeidae
family Dioscoreaceae
family Dipodidae
family Dipsacaceae
family Dipterocarpaceae
family Discoglossidae
family Doliolidae
family Dracunculidae
family Drepanididae (current term)
family Dromaeosauridae
family Droseraceae
family Drosophilidae
family Dryopteridaceae
family Dugongidae
family Dytiscidae
family Ebenaceae
family Echeneidae
family Echeneididae
family Edaphosauridae
family Eimeriidae
family Elaeagnaceae
family Elaeocarpaceae
family Elapidae

Literary usage of Family Drepanididae

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

1. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Augustus Henry Keane (1888)
"These belong to eleven genera, eight of which are peculiar, and what is more remarkable, four of them form a small family, Drepanididae, which has no ..."

2. A Text-book of Zoogeography by Frank Evers Beddard (1895)
"belong to a family Drepanididae, which is absolutely confined to these islands and which may have, ..."

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