GOBIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gobiidae mean? 

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

1. gobies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOBIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gobies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Gobiidae; Gobiidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Gobiidae"):

goby; gudgeon (small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker)

genus Periophthalmus; Periophthalmus (a genus of Gobiidae)

Holonyms ("Gobiidae" 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)