| Noun | 1. | family Anatidae - swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducksbird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings duck - small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs goose - web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks swan - stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult | |