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SILLAGINIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small family of small food fishes in shallow waters of the Pacific around Indonesia

Synonyms:

family Sillaginidae; Sillaginidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Sillaginidae"):

genus Sillago; Sillago (type genus of the Sillaginidae)

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

Percoidea; suborder Percoidea (in some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder)

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