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FAMILY BALAENIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Balaenidae mean?
• FAMILY BALAENIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY BALAENIDAE has 1 sense:
1. right whales
Familiarity information: FAMILY BALAENIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Right whales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Balaenidae; family Balaenidae
Hypernyms ("family Balaenidae" is a kind of...):
mammal family (a family of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "family Balaenidae"):
right whale (large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the 'right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil)
Balaena; genus Balaena (type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales)
Holonyms ("family Balaenidae" is a member of...):
Mysticeti; suborder Mysticeti (baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; humpbacks)
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