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CERATODONTIDAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth

Synonyms:

Ceratodontidae; family Ceratodontidae

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Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Ceratodontidae"):

genus Ceratodus (type genus of the Ceratodontidae: extinct genus of lungfishes)

genus Neoceratodus; Neoceratodus (extant Australian lungfishes)

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

Dipnoi; subclass Dipnoi (bony fishes of the southern hemisphere that breathe by a modified air bladder as well as gills; sometimes classified as an order of Crossopterygii)

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