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SYNGNATHIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Pipefishes

Synonyms:

family Syngnathidae; Syngnathidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Syngnathidae"):

needlefish; pipefish (fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates)

genus Syngnathus; Syngnathus (type genus of the family Syngnathidae)

Cosmocampus; genus Cosmocampus (a genus of fish in the family Syngnathidae)

genus Hippocampus; Hippocampus (seahorses)

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

order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)

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