| Noun | 1. | family Rallidae - rails; crakes; gallinules; coots bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings Gruiformes, order Gruiformes - inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards rail - any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud Gallirallus, genus Gallirallus - rails of New Zealand Crex, genus Crex - corncrakes genus Porzana, Porzana - spotted crakes Gallinula, genus Gallinula - gallinules genus Porphyrio, Porphyrio - Old World purple gallinules genus Porphyrula, Porphyrula - American purple gallinules genus Notornis - a genus of Rallidae Fulica, genus Fulica - coots |