GENUS HAEMULON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Haemulon mean? 

• GENUS HAEMULON (noun)
  The noun GENUS HAEMULON has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Haemulidae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HAEMULON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Haemulidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Haemulon; Haemulon

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

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Haemulon"):

Haemulon album; margate (a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil)

Haemulon macrostomum; Spanish grunt (a kind of grunt)

Haemulon aurolineatum; tomtate (found off the West Indies and Florida)

cottonwick; Haemulon malanurum (of warm Atlantic waters)

Haemulon parra; sailor's-choice; sailors choice (a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico)

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

family Haemulidae; Haemulidae (grunts)