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GOBIIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Gobies

Synonyms:

family Gobiidae; Gobiidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Gobiidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Gobiidae"):

goby; gudgeon (small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker)

genus Periophthalmus; Periophthalmus (a genus of Gobiidae)

Holonyms ("Gobiidae" 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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