PHOLIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pholis mean? 

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

1. type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOLIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Pholis; Pholis

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

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Pholis"):

butterfish; Pholis gunnellus; rock gunnel (slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters)

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

family Pholidae; family Pholididae; Pholidae (a family of fish of suborder Blennioidea)