| Noun | 1. | family Diomedeidae - albatrosses bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings order Procellariiformes, Procellariiformes - petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels mollymawk, albatross - large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight genus Diomedea - type of the Diomedeidae |