FAMILY CALLIONYMIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Callionymidae mean? 

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

1. dragonets

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY CALLIONYMIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dragonets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Callionymidae; family Callionymidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Callionymidae"):

dragonet (small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America)

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

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)