FAMILY ZIPHIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ziphiidae mean? 

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

1. beaked whales; in some especially former classifications included in the family Physeteridae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ZIPHIIDAE (noun)

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Meaning:

Beaked whales; in some especially former classifications included in the family Physeteridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Hyperodontidae; family Ziphiidae; Hyperodontidae; Ziphiidae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Ziphiidae"):

beaked whale (any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw)

genus Hyperoodon; Hyperoodon (bottle-nosed whales)

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

Odontoceti; suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales)