COBITIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cobitidae mean? 

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

1. loaches

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COBITIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loaches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cobitidae; family Cobitidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Cobitidae"):

loach (slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes)

Holonyms ("Cobitidae" 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)