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FAMILY MULLIDAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Goatfishes or red mullets

Synonyms:

family Mullidae; Mullidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Mullidae"):

mullet (bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin)

genus Mullus; Mullus (type genus of the Mullidae: goatfishes)

genus Mulloidichthys; Mulloidichthys (a genus of Mullidae)

Holonyms ("family Mullidae" 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)

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