CLINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Clinidae mean? 

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

1. viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Clinidae; family Clinidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Clinidae"):

clinid; clinid fish (mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds)

Chaenopsis; genus Chaenopsis (a genus of fish of the family Clinidae including pikeblennies)

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

Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)