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FAMILY CHARACIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Characidae mean?
• FAMILY CHARACIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY CHARACIDAE has 1 sense:
1. tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America
Familiarity information: FAMILY CHARACIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Characidae; family Characidae
Hypernyms ("family Characidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Characidae"):
characid; characin; characin fish (any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae)
genus Hemigrammus; Hemigrammus (tetras)
genus Paracheirodon; Paracheirodon (a genus of Characidae)
genus Serrasalmus; Serrasalmus (piranhas)
Holonyms ("family Characidae" is a member of...):
Cypriniformes; order Cypriniformes (an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi)
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