Definition of Fregatidae

1. Noun. Frigate birds.

Exact synonyms: Family Fregatidae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Order Pelecaniformes, Pelecaniformes
Member holonyms: Fregata, Genus Fregata

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fregatidae

Freecyclers
Freedom Party
Freelander
Freelanders
Freeman
Freemason
Freemasonic
Freemasonry
Freemasons
Freeper
Freepers
Freetown
Freezone
Fregata
Fregatidae
Fregean
Fregoli delusion
Fregoli syndrome
Frei-Hoffmann reaction
Frei test
Freiberg's disease
Freiberg infraction
Freiburg
Frelimo
Fremantle
Fremantle Doctor
Fremont
Fremontia

Literary usage of Fregatidae

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

1. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"Family fregatidae. Range.—Tropical seas, north regularly in America to the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1894)
"fregatidae. Fregata. In the 'Proceedings' of the Zoological Society of London for this year (1894, p. 160) I published a brief article 'On the ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... except the fregatidae; the legs are set far back, the tibia is hardly visible, and the short thick toes are directed forwards, the small hallux alone ..."

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