ECHENEIDIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Echeneididae mean? 

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

1. fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECHENEIDIDAE (noun)

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Meaning:

Fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Echeneididae; family Echeneidae; family Echeneididae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Echeneididae"):

remora; suckerfish; sucking fish (marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects)

Echeneis; genus Echeneis (type genus of the Echeneididae: typical remoras)

genus Remilegia; Remilegia (a genus of Echeneididae)

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

Discocephali; order Discocephali (small order of fishes comprising the remoras)