FAMILY SUIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Suidae mean? 

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

1. pigs; hogs; boars

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY SUIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pigs; hogs; boars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Suidae; Suidae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Suidae"):

swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)

genus Sus; Sus (type genus of the Suidae)

Babyrousa; genus Babyrousa (a genus of Suidae)

genus Phacochoerus; Phacochoerus (warthogs)

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

Artiodactyla; order Artiodactyla (an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes)