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TRACHIPTERIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Ribbonfishes

Synonyms:

family Trachipteridae; Trachipteridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Trachipteridae"):

ribbonfish (marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body)

genus Trachipterus; Trachipterus (type genus of the Trachipteridae)

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

Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)

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