FAMILY BALANIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Balanidae mean? 

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

1. stalkless barnacles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY BALANIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stalkless barnacles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Balanidae; family Balanidae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Balanidae"):

Balanus; genus Balanus (type genus of the family Balanidae)

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

Cirripedia; subclass Cirripedia (barnacles)