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FAMILY CLINIDAE

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Meaning:

Viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas

Synonyms:

Clinidae; family Clinidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Clinidae"):

clinid; clinid fish (mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds)

Chaenopsis; genus Chaenopsis (a genus of fish of the family Clinidae including pikeblennies)

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

Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)

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