FAMILY ELOPIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Elopidae mean? 

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

1. tarpons and ladyfishes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ELOPIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tarpons and ladyfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Elopidae; family Elopidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Elopidae"):

genus Tarpon (tarpons)

Elops; genus Elops (type genus of the Elopidae: tenpounder)

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

Isospondyli; order Isospondyli (most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon)