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BALISTIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Balistidae mean?
• BALISTIDAE (noun)
The noun BALISTIDAE has 1 sense:
1. triggerfishes
Familiarity information: BALISTIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Triggerfishes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Balistidae; family Balistidae
Hypernyms ("Balistidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "Balistidae"):
triggerfish (any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin)
Balistes; genus Balistes (type genus of the Balistidae)
filefish (narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine)
Holonyms ("Balistidae" is a member of...):
order Plectognathi; order Tetraodontiformes; Plectognathi (boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers)
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