FAMILY ANGUILLIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Anguillidae mean? 

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

1. eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ANGUILLIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Anguillidae; family Anguillidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Anguillidae"):

Anguilla; genus Anguilla (type genus of the Anguillidae: eels)

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

Anguilliformes; order Anguilliformes; order Apodes (elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced)