FAMILY SYNGNATHIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Syngnathidae mean? 

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

1. pipefishes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY SYNGNATHIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pipefishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Syngnathidae; Syngnathidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Syngnathidae"):

needlefish; pipefish (fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates)

genus Syngnathus; Syngnathus (type genus of the family Syngnathidae)

Cosmocampus; genus Cosmocampus (a genus of fish in the family Syngnathidae)

genus Hippocampus; Hippocampus (seahorses)

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

order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)