pittidae

English Thesaurus

1. pittas (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bird family,
definition	:	a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus pitta,
definition	:	type genus of the Pittidae; a large genus of birds of southern Asia and Australia and adjacent islands (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	superfamily tyrannidae, tyrannidae,
definition	:	New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada (noun.animal)