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PHOLIDAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A family of fish of suborder Blennioidea

Synonyms:

family Pholidae; family Pholididae; Pholidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Pholidae"):

bracketed blenny; gunnel (small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic)

genus Pholis; Pholis (type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels)

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

Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)

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