FAMILY CERATODONTIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ceratodontidae mean? 

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

1. lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY CERATODONTIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ceratodontidae; family Ceratodontidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Ceratodontidae"):

genus Ceratodus (type genus of the Ceratodontidae: extinct genus of lungfishes)

genus Neoceratodus; Neoceratodus (extant Australian lungfishes)

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

Dipnoi; subclass Dipnoi (bony fishes of the southern hemisphere that breathe by a modified air bladder as well as gills; sometimes classified as an order of Crossopterygii)