FAMILY SALPIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Salpidae mean? 

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

1. a small family of tunicates in the class Thaliacea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY SALPIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small family of tunicates in the class Thaliacea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Salpidae; Salpidae

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

chordate family (any family in the phylum Chordata)

Meronyms (members of "family Salpidae"):

genus Salpa (type (perhaps sole) genus of the Salpidae)

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

class Thaliacea; Thaliacea (small class of free-swimming tunicates; sometimes classified as an order)