FAMILY EXOCOETIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Exocoetidae mean? 

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

1. flying fishes; closely related to the halfbeaks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY EXOCOETIDAE (noun)

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Meaning:

Flying fishes; closely related to the halfbeaks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Exocoetidae; family Exocoetidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Exocoetidae"):

flying fish (tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight)

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

order Synentognathi; Synentognathi (order of fishes having spineless fins; needlefishes; sauries; flying fishes; halfbeaks)