Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Meropidæ, or having their characters.
- noun A bird of the family Meropidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of a family of birds (
Meropidæ ), including the bee-eaters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
bird (such as thebee-eaters ) of the familyMeropidae
Etymologies
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From the scientific Latin Meropidae + the English suffix -an.
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