FAMILY CASTORIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Castoridae mean? 

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

1. beavers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY CASTORIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beavers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Castoridae; family Castoridae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Castoridae"):

Castor; genus Castor (type genus of the Castoridae: beavers)

Castoroides; genus Castoroides (extinct beavers of the Pleistocene; of eastern and southern United States)

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

Sciuromorpha; suborder Sciuromorpha (large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.)