FAMILY MONOCANTHIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Monocanthidae mean? 

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

1. filefishes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY MONOCANTHIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filefishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Monocanthidae; Monocanthidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Monocanthidae"):

genus Monocanthus; Monocanthus (type genus of the Monocanthidae)

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

order Plectognathi; order Tetraodontiformes; Plectognathi (boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers)