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CHARACIN FISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does characin fish mean?
• CHARACIN FISH (noun)
The noun CHARACIN FISH has 1 sense:
1. any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae
Familiarity information: CHARACIN FISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
characid; characin; characin fish
Hypernyms ("characin fish" is a kind of...):
cypriniform fish (a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "characin fish"):
tetra (brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes)
cardinal tetra; Paracheirodon axelrodi (small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Colombia)
caribe; pirana; piranha (small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals)
Holonyms ("characin fish" is a member of...):
Characidae; family Characidae (tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America)
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