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    FAMILY CYPRINODONTIDAE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppiesplay

    Synonyms:

    Cyprinodontidae; family Cyprinodontidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Cyprinodontidae" is a kind of...):

    fish family (any of various families of fish)

    Meronyms (members of "family Cyprinodontidae"):

    cyprinodont (any member of the family Cyprinodontidae)

    Fundulus; genus Fundulus; genus Rivulus (killifish)

    genus Jordanella; Jordanella (flagfishes)

    genus Xyphophorus; Xyphophorus (swordtails)

    genus Lebistes; Lebistes (guppies)

    Holonyms ("family Cyprinodontidae" is a member of...):

    Cypriniformes; order Cypriniformes (an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi)

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