FAMILY TAENIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Taeniidae mean? 

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

1. a family of Cestoda

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY TAENIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of Cestoda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Taeniidae; Taeniidae

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

worm family (a family of worms)

Meronyms (members of "family Taeniidae"):

genus Echinococcus (tapeworms)

genus Taenia (type genus of the family Taeniidae: tapeworms)

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

Cestoda; class Cestoda (tapeworms)