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FAMILY MACROURIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Macrouridae mean?
• FAMILY MACROURIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY MACROURIDAE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: FAMILY MACROURIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grenadiers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Macrouridae; family Macruridae; Macrouridae; Macruridae
Hypernyms ("family Macrouridae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Macrouridae"):
grenadier; rattail; rattail fish (deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail)
Holonyms ("family Macrouridae" is a member of...):
Gadiformes; order Gadiformes (cods, haddocks, grenadiers; in some classifications considered equivalent to the order Anacanthini)
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