FAMILY PERIDINIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Peridiniidae mean? 

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

1. marine and freshwater dinoflagellates

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PERIDINIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marine and freshwater dinoflagellates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Peridiniidae; Peridiniidae

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

protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "family Peridiniidae"):

genus Peridinium; Peridinium (type genus of the family Peridiniidae)

peridinian (flagellate with a thick test composed of plates)

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

Cilioflagellata; Dinoflagellata; order Cilioflagellata; order Dinoflagellata (in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta)