FAMILY SILURIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Siluridae mean? 

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

1. Old World catfishes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY SILURIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World catfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Siluridae; Siluridae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Siluridae"):

silurid; silurid fish (Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin)

genus Silurus; Silurus (type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes)

genus Malopterurus; Malopterurus (electric catfish)

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

order Siluriformes; Siluriformes (an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes)