FAMILY PETROMYZONTIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Petromyzontidae mean? 

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

1. lampreys

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PETROMYZONTIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lampreys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Petromyzontidae; Petromyzontidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Petromyzontidae"):

lamper eel; lamprey; lamprey eel (primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue)

genus Petromyzon; Petromyzon (typical lampreys)

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

Cyclostomata; order Cyclostomata (primitive jawless aquatic vertebrate: lampreys; hagfishes)