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FAMILY SPIRULIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Spirulidae mean?
• FAMILY SPIRULIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY SPIRULIDAE has 1 sense:
1. coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications
Familiarity information: FAMILY SPIRULIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Spirulidae; Spirulidae
Hypernyms ("family Spirulidae" is a kind of...):
mollusk family (a family of mollusks)
Meronyms (members of "family Spirulidae"):
genus Spirula (genus of small cephalopods with many-chambered spiral shells resembling those of the extinct belemnites)
Holonyms ("family Spirulidae" is a member of...):
Decapoda; order Decapoda (squids and cuttlefishes)
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