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MACRORHAMPHOSIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Bellows fishes

Synonyms:

family Macrorhamphosidae; Macrorhamphosidae

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Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Macrorhamphosidae"):

bellows fish; snipefish (small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth)

Holonyms ("Macrorhamphosidae" is a member of...):

order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)

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