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FAMILY PRIACANTHIDAE

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Meaning:

Small carnivorous percoid fishes found worldwide in tropical seas

Synonyms:

family Priacanthidae; Priacanthidae

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Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Priacanthidae"):

genus Priacanthus; Priacanthus (type genus of the Priacanthidae)

Holonyms ("family Priacanthidae" 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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