GADIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gadidae mean? 

• GADIDAE (noun)
  The noun GADIDAE has 1 sense:

1. large family of important mostly marine food fishes

  Familiarity information: GADIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GADIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large family of important mostly marine food fishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Gadidae; Gadidae

Hypernyms ("Gadidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Gadidae"):

gadoid; gadoid fish (a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae)

Gadus; genus Gadus (type genus of the Gadidae: the typical codfishes)

genus Merlangus; Merlangus (whitings)

genus Lota; Lota (burbot)

genus Melanogrammus; Melanogrammus (haddock)

genus Pollachius; Pollachius (pollack)

genus Merluccius; Merluccius; genus Urophycis; Urophycis (hakes)

genus Molva; Molva (ling)

Brosmius; genus Browmius (cusk)

Holonyms ("Gadidae" is a member of...):

Gadiformes; order Gadiformes (cods, haddocks, grenadiers; in some classifications considered equivalent to the order Anacanthini)