FAMILY ZOARCIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Zoarcidae mean? 

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

1. eelpouts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ZOARCIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eelpouts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Zoarcidae; Zoarcidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Zoarcidae"):

eelpout; pout (marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas)

genus Zoarces; Zoarces (type genus of the Zoarcidae)

genus Gymnelis; Gymnelis; genus Macrozoarces; Macrozoarces (a genus of Zoarcidae)

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

Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)