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FAMILY SCORPAENIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Scorpaenidae mean?
• FAMILY SCORPAENIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY SCORPAENIDAE has 1 sense:
1. scorpionfishes; rockfishes; lionfishes
Familiarity information: FAMILY SCORPAENIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scorpionfishes; rockfishes; lionfishes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Scorpaenidae; Scorpaenidae
Hypernyms ("family Scorpaenidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Scorpaenidae"):
scorpaenid; scorpaenid fish (any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific)
genus Scorpaena; Scorpaena (type genus of the Scorpaenidae: scorpionfishes)
genus Pterois; Pterois (lionfishes)
genus Synanceja; Synanceja (stonefishes)
genus Sebastodes; Sebastodes (rockfishes)
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