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    FAMILY PHOLIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of fish of suborder Blennioideaplay

    Synonyms:

    family Pholidae; family Pholididae; Pholidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    fish family (any of various families of fish)

    Meronyms (members of "family 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 ("family Pholidae" is a member of...):

    Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)

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