FAMILY DASYURINAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Dasyurinae mean? 

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

1. dasyures; native cats; pouched mice; banded anteaters; Tasmanian devils

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY DASYURINAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dasyures; native cats; pouched mice; banded anteaters; Tasmanian devils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Dasyuridae; family Dasyuridae; family Dasyurinae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Dasyurinae"):

dasyurid; dasyurid marsupial (small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania)

Dasyurus; genus Dasyurus (type genus of the family Dasyuridae: native cats)

genus Thylacinus; Thylacinus (Tasmanian wolf)

genus Sarcophilus; Sarcophilus (Tasmanian devil)

genus Phascogale; Phascogale (pouched mice)

genus Myrmecobius; Myrmecobius (banded anteater)

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

Marsupialia; order Marsupialia (coextensive with the subclass Metatheria)