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FAMILY MACRURIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Macruridae mean? 

FAMILY MACRURIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY MACRURIDAE has 1 sense:

1. grenadiersplay

  Familiarity information: FAMILY MACRURIDAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY MACRURIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Grenadiers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Macrouridae; family Macruridae; Macrouridae; Macruridae

Hypernyms ("family Macruridae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Macruridae"):

grenadier; rattail; rattail fish (deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail)

Holonyms ("family Macruridae" is a member of...):

Gadiformes; order Gadiformes (cods, haddocks, grenadiers; in some classifications considered equivalent to the order Anacanthini)


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