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FAMILY AULOSTOMIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Aulostomidae mean?
• FAMILY AULOSTOMIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY AULOSTOMIDAE has 1 sense:
1. trumpetfishes
Familiarity information: FAMILY AULOSTOMIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trumpetfishes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Aulostomidae; family Aulostomidae
Hypernyms ("family Aulostomidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "family Aulostomidae"):
Aulostomus; genus Aulostomus (type genus of the Aulostomidae)
Holonyms ("family Aulostomidae" is a member of...):
order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)
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