English noun: Phaethon | |||
| 1. | Phaethon (person) (Greek mythology) son of Helios; killed when trying to drive his father's chariot and came too close to earth | ||
| Instance hypernym | Greek deity | ||
| Domain category | Greek mythology | ||
| 2. | Phaethon (animal) type genus of the Phaethontidae | ||
| Synonyms | genus Phaethon | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bird genus | ||
| Member holonym | boatswain bird, tropic bird, tropicbird | ||
| Member meronym | family Phaethontidae, Phaethontidae | ||