TRACHIPTERIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trachipteridae mean? 

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

1. ribbonfishes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRACHIPTERIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ribbonfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Trachipteridae; Trachipteridae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Trachipteridae"):

ribbonfish (marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body)

genus Trachipterus; Trachipterus (type genus of the Trachipteridae)

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

Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)