1) Bird family 2) Family glareolidae 
Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadri. It contains two distinct groups, the pratincoles and the coursers. The coursers include the atypical Egyptian plover, Pluvianus aegyptius, which has sometimes been placed in its own family. The family contains 17 species in five genera. The feature that defines the family from the re...
[n] - Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers
family Glareolidae noun Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers