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FAMILY PRISTIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Pristidae mean?
• FAMILY PRISTIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY PRISTIDAE has 1 sense:
1. large primitive rays with elongated snouts
Familiarity information: FAMILY PRISTIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large primitive rays with elongated snouts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Pristidae; Pristidae
Hypernyms ("family Pristidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Pristidae"):
sawfish (primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout)
genus Pristis; Pristis (type genus of the Pristidae)
Holonyms ("family Pristidae" is a member of...):
Batoidei; order Batoidei; order Rajiformes; Rajiformes (fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes)
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