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GENUS ANOMALOPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Anomalops mean? 

GENUS ANOMALOPS (noun)
  The noun GENUS ANOMALOPS has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the family Anomalopidaeplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS ANOMALOPS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS ANOMALOPS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the family Anomalopidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Anomalops" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Anomalops"):

anomalops; flashlight fish (fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico)

Holonyms ("genus Anomalops" is a member of...):

Anomalopidae; family Anomalopidae (a family of fish including: flashlight fishes)


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