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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 Characinidaeplay

  Familiarity information: CHARACIN FISH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHARACIN FISH (noun)


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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