HAEMULIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Haemulidae mean? 

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

1. grunts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAEMULIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grunts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Haemulidae; Haemulidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Haemulidae"):

grunt (medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught)

genus Haemulon; Haemulon (type genus of the Haemulidae)

Anisotremus; genus Anisotremus; genus Orthopristis; Orthopristis (a genus of Haemulidae)

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

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)