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    FAMILY PECTINIDAE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Scallopsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Pectinidae; Pectinidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    mollusk family (a family of mollusks)

    Meronyms (members of "family Pectinidae"):

    escallop; scallop; scollop (edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions)

    genus Pecten (type genus of the family Pectinidae: sea and bay scallops)

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

    Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia (oysters; clams; scallops; mussels)

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