HOLOCENTRIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Holocentridae mean? 

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

1. squirrelfishes and soldierfishes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLOCENTRIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Squirrelfishes and soldierfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Holocentridae; Holocentridae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Holocentridae"):

genus Holocentrus; Holocentrus (type genus of the family Holocentridae; squirrelfishes)

squirrelfish (very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark)

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

Berycomorphi; order Berycomorphi (an order of spiny-finned fish in the superorder Acanthopterygii)