TAYASSUIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tayassuidae mean? 

• TAYASSUIDAE (noun)
  The noun TAYASSUIDAE has 1 sense:

1. peccaries

  Familiarity information: TAYASSUIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAYASSUIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Peccaries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Tayassuidae; Tayassuidae

Hypernyms ("Tayassuidae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Tayassuidae"):

genus Pecari; genus Tayassu; Tayassu (type genus of the Tayassuidae)

Holonyms ("Tayassuidae" is a member of...):

Artiodactyla; order Artiodactyla (an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes)