BELONIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Belonidae mean? 

• BELONIDAE (noun)
  The noun BELONIDAE has 1 sense:

1. ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars

  Familiarity information: BELONIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELONIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Belonidae; family Belonidae

Hypernyms ("Belonidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Belonidae"):

billfish; gar; needlefish (elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters)

Holonyms ("Belonidae" is a member of...):

order Synentognathi; Synentognathi (order of fishes having spineless fins; needlefishes; sauries; flying fishes; halfbeaks)