FAMILY DACTYLOSCOPIDAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Sand stargazers

Synonyms:

Dactyloscopidae; family Dactyloscopidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Dactyloscopidae"):

sand stargazer (small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey)

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