FAMILY ANTENNARIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Antennariidae mean? 

• FAMILY ANTENNARIIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY ANTENNARIIDAE has 1 sense:

1. frogfishes; tropical spiny-finned marine fishes having large nearly vertical mouths; related to toadfishes and anglers

  Familiarity information: FAMILY ANTENNARIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ANTENNARIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Frogfishes; tropical spiny-finned marine fishes having large nearly vertical mouths; related to toadfishes and anglers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Antennariidae; family Antennariidae

Hypernyms ("family Antennariidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Antennariidae"):

frogfish (fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout)

sargassum fish (small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum)

Holonyms ("family Antennariidae" is a member of...):

order Pediculati; Pediculati (anglers and batfishes; spiny-finned marine fishes having pectoral fins at the ends of armlike processes and a long movable spine on the dorsal fin to lure prey to the large mouth)