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FAMILY COBITIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Loaches

Synonyms:

Cobitidae; family Cobitidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Cobitidae"):

loach (slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes)

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

Cypriniformes; order Cypriniformes (an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi)

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