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FAMILY OSTRACIONTIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ostraciontidae mean?
• FAMILY OSTRACIONTIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY OSTRACIONTIDAE has 1 sense:
1. boxfishes
Familiarity information: FAMILY OSTRACIONTIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FAMILY OSTRACIONTIDAE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Boxfishes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Ostraciidae; family Ostraciontidae; Ostraciidae
Hypernyms ("family Ostraciontidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Ostraciontidae"):
boxfish; trunkfish (any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates)
genus Lactophrys; Lactophrys (a genus of Ostraciidae)
Holonyms ("family Ostraciontidae" is a member of...):
order Plectognathi; order Tetraodontiformes; Plectognathi (boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers)
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