PECTINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pectinidae mean? 

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

1. scallops

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PECTINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scallops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Pectinidae; Pectinidae

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

mollusk family (a family of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "Pectinidae"):

escallop; scallop; scollop (edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions)

genus Pecten (type genus of the family Pectinidae: sea and bay scallops)

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

Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia (oysters; clams; scallops; mussels)