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FAMILY MURAENIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Muraenidae mean?
• FAMILY MURAENIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY MURAENIDAE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: FAMILY MURAENIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marine eels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Muraenidae; Muraenidae
Hypernyms ("family Muraenidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Muraenidae"):
moray; moray eel (family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked)
Holonyms ("family Muraenidae" is a member of...):
Anguilliformes; order Anguilliformes; order Apodes (elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced)
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