MULLIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mullidae mean? 

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

1. goatfishes or red mullets

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MULLIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Goatfishes or red mullets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Mullidae; Mullidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Mullidae"):

mullet (bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin)

genus Mullus; Mullus (type genus of the Mullidae: goatfishes)

genus Mulloidichthys; Mulloidichthys (a genus of Mullidae)

Holonyms ("Mullidae" 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)