FAMILY ARIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ariidae mean? 

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

1. sea catfishes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ARIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sea catfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ariidae; family Ariidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Ariidae"):

sea catfish (any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food)

Arius; genus Arius (type genus of the Ariidae: sea catfishes)

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

order Siluriformes; Siluriformes (an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes)