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MYTILIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mytilidae mean? 

MYTILIDAE (noun)
  The noun MYTILIDAE has 1 sense:

1. marine musselsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MYTILIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Marine mussels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Mytilidae; Mytilidae

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

mollusk family (a family of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "Mytilidae"):

genus Mytilus; Mytilus (type genus of the family Mytilidae: smooth-shelled marine mussels)

marine mussel; mytilid (marine bivalve mollusk having a dark elongated shell; live attached to solid objects especially in intertidal zones)

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

Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia (oysters; clams; scallops; mussels)


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