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FAMILY MACRORHAMPHOSIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Macrorhamphosidae mean?
• FAMILY MACRORHAMPHOSIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY MACRORHAMPHOSIDAE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: FAMILY MACRORHAMPHOSIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FAMILY MACRORHAMPHOSIDAE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bellows fishes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Macrorhamphosidae; Macrorhamphosidae
Hypernyms ("family Macrorhamphosidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Macrorhamphosidae"):
bellows fish; snipefish (small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth)
Holonyms ("family Macrorhamphosidae" is a member of...):
order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)
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