| Noun | 1. | family Turdidae - thrushes; in some classifications considered a subfamily (Turdinae) of the family Muscicapidaebird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings Oscines, Passeres, suborder Oscines, suborder Passeres - two names for the suborder of typical songbirds thrush - songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast genus Turdus, Turdus - type genus of the Turdidae genus Hylocichla, Hylocichla - American thrush: wood thrush; hermit thrush; veery genus Luscinia, Luscinia - nightingales genus Saxicola, Saxicola - Old World chats genus Myadestes, Myadestes - solitaires genus Phoenicurus, Phoenicurus - Old World thrushes genus Oenanthe, Oenanthe - wheatears Erithacus, genus Erithacus - Old World thrushes |