FAMILY FISSURELLIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Fissurellidae mean? 

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

1. marine limpets

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY FISSURELLIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marine limpets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Fissurellidae; Fissurellidae

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

mollusk family (a family of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "family Fissurellidae"):

Fissurella; genus Fissurella (type genus of the family Fissurellidae: keyhole limpets)

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

class Gasteropoda; class Gastropoda; Gasteropoda; Gastropoda (snails and slugs and their relatives)