Definitions

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  • proper noun A taxonomic family within the order Passeriformes — the mockingbirds and thrashers.

Etymologies

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Mimus +‎ -idae

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Examples

  • There are two other members of the Mimidae often found on the East Coast.

    City Bird aka TBTAM 2009

  • "Reedlings" is just too twee; "real" babblers look like New World thrashers Mimidae...

    "Sunbirds and Cashmere Spheres" 2006

  • Lovette & Rubenstein [12]: "at least one representative of all morphologically or biogeographically distinctive lineages in the Sturnidae and Mimidae".

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Lovette & Rubenstein [12]: "at least one representative of all morphologically or biogeographically distinctive lineages in the Sturnidae and Mimidae".

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David G. Haskell et al. 2009

  • I realized that this bird was clearly not a Long-billed Thrasher, nor was it any other exotic or misplaced member of the Thrasher and Mockingbird family, Mimidae.

    Homepage 2009

  • I did a computer search and found that abnormally long bills are rare, but certainly not unknown among the Mimidae.

    Homepage 2009

  • Sturnidae) and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae): congruent mtDNA and nuclear trees for a cosmopolitan avian radiation.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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