CATOSTOMIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Catostomidae mean? 

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

1. suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATOSTOMIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Catostomidae; family Catostomidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Catostomidae"):

catostomid (a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae)

sucker (mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps)

Catostomus; genus Catostomus (type genus of the family Catostomidae)

genus Ictiobus; Ictiobus (buffalo fishes)

genus Hypentelium; Hypentelium; genus Maxostoma; Maxostoma (a genus of fish in the family Catostomidae)

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

Cypriniformes; order Cypriniformes (an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi)