MOLLUSK FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mollusk family mean? 

• MOLLUSK FAMILY (noun)
  The noun MOLLUSK FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. a family of mollusks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOLLUSK FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of mollusks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mollusk family"):

family Pectinidae; Pectinidae (scallops)

family Solenidae; Solenidae (razor clams)

family Tridacnidae; Tridacnidae (large marine hard-shell clams)

Cardiidae; family Cardiidae (somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks)

family Ostreidae; Ostreidae (oysters)

family Pteriidae; Pteriidae (pearl oysters)

Anomiidae; family Anomiidae (saddle oysters)

Arcidae; family Arcidae (ark shells)

family Mytilidae; Mytilidae (marine mussels)

family Unionidae; Unionidae (freshwater mussels found worldwide)

family Veneridae; Veneridae (hard-shell clams)

family Teredinidae; Teredinidae (shipworms)

family Pholadidae; Pholadidae (a family of Bivalvia)

family Nautilidae; Nautilidae (spiral-shelled cephalopods)

family Octopodidae; Octopodidae (a family of Octopoda)

Argonautidae; family Argonautidae (represented solely by the genus Argonauta)

family Sepiidae; Sepiidae (true cuttlefishes)

family Spirulidae; Spirulidae (coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications)

Belemnitidae; family Belemnitidae (family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods)

family Littorinidae; Littorinidae (periwinkles)

family Haliotidae; Haliotidae (abalones)

family Strombidae; Strombidae (the family of conchs)

family Helicidae; Helicidae (land snails including the common edible snail and some pests)

family Limacidae; Limacidae (slugs)

family Neritidae; Neritidae (neritids)

Buccinidae; family Buccinidae (whelks)

Cymatiidae; family Cymatiidae (tritons)

family Naticidae; Naticidae (moonshells)

family Patellidae; Patellidae; family Fissurellidae; Fissurellidae (marine limpets)

Ancylidae; family Ancylidae (freshwater gastropod)

Aplysiidae; family Aplysiidae; family Tethyidae; Tethyidae (sea hares)

Akeridae; family Akeridae (bubble shells)

family Physidae; Physidae (freshwater snails)

Cypraeidae; family Cypraeidae (family of marine gastropods comprising the cowries)

family Myacidae; Myacidae (soft-shell clams)

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

animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)