FAMILY OSTRACIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ostraciidae mean? 

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

1. boxfishes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY OSTRACIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Boxfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Ostraciidae; family Ostraciontidae; Ostraciidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Ostraciidae"):

boxfish; trunkfish (any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates)

genus Lactophrys; Lactophrys (a genus of Ostraciidae)

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

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