FAMILY LARICARIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Laricariidae mean? 

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

1. armored catfish

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY LARICARIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Armored catfish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Laricariidae; Laricariidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Laricariidae"):

armored catfish (South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates)

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

order Siluriformes; Siluriformes (an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes)