FAMILY CARAPIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Carapidae mean? 

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

1. pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY CARAPIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Carapidae; family Carapidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Carapidae"):

pearl-fish; pearlfish (found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds)

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

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)