Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An Australian family of anomalous or pseudoscinine passerine birds, represented by the genus Menura; the lyre-birds.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun A natural family of birds including the lyrebirds.

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  • proper noun A taxonomic family within the superfamily Menuroidea — the lyrebirds.

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  • noun lyrebirds

Etymologies

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Menura +‎ -idae

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