TRICHODONTIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trichodontidae mean? 

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

1. two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRICHODONTIDAE (noun)

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Meaning:

Two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Trichodontidae; Trichodontidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Trichodontidae"):

sandfish (either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand)

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

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)