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OSTRACIIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Boxfishes

Synonyms:

family Ostraciidae; family Ostraciontidae; Ostraciidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Ostraciidae"):

boxfish; trunkfish (any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates)

genus Lactophrys; Lactophrys (a genus of Ostraciidae)

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

order Plectognathi; order Tetraodontiformes; Plectognathi (boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers)

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