Definition of Diomedeidae

1. Noun. Albatrosses.

Exact synonyms: Family Diomedeidae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Order Procellariiformes, Procellariiformes
Member holonyms: Albatross, Mollymawk, Genus Diomedea

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diomedeidae

Dinornis giganteus
Dinornithidae
Dinornithiformes
Diocletian
Dioctophyma
Dioctophyma renale
Diodon holocanthus
Diodon hystrix
Diodontidae
Diodora apertura
Diogenean
Diogenes
Diogenes cup
Diomedea exulans
Diomedea nigripes
Diomedeidae
Diomedes
Dion
Dionaea muscipula
Dione
Dionean
Dionysia
Dionysiac
Dionysian
Dionysius
Dionysius the Elder
Dionysos
Dionysus
Diophantine
Diophantine equation

Literary usage of Diomedeidae

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

1. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"Family diomedeidae Albatrosses are the largest of the sea birds and have an enormous expanse of wing, the Wandering Albatross, the largest of the family, ..."

2. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"diomedeidae, Albatrosses (not found in Michigan). Family 8. Procellariidae, Fulmars, Shearwaters, and Petrels (not found in Michigan). Order IV. ..."

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