FAMILY CENTRISCIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Centriscidae mean? 

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

1. shrimpfishes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY CENTRISCIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrimpfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Centriscidae; family Centriscidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Centriscidae"):

shrimp-fish; shrimpfish (slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates)

Holonyms ("family Centriscidae" 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)