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BUCCINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Buccinidae mean? 

BUCCINIDAE (noun)
  The noun BUCCINIDAE has 1 sense:

1. whelksplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BUCCINIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Whelks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Buccinidae; family Buccinidae

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

mollusk family (a family of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "Buccinidae"):

whelk (large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell)

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

class Gasteropoda; class Gastropoda; Gasteropoda; Gastropoda (snails and slugs and their relatives)


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