ELEOTRIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eleotridae mean? 

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

1. sleepers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELEOTRIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sleepers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Eleotridae; family Eleotridae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Eleotridae"):

sleeper; sleeper goby (tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water)

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

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)