SILLAGINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sillaginidae mean? 

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

1. small family of small food fishes in shallow waters of the Pacific around Indonesia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILLAGINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small family of small food fishes in shallow waters of the Pacific around Indonesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Sillaginidae; Sillaginidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Sillaginidae"):

genus Sillago; Sillago (type genus of the Sillaginidae)

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

Percoidea; suborder Percoidea (in some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder)