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CHARACID

Dictionary entry overview: What does characid mean?

• CHARACID (noun)
The noun CHARACID has 1 sense:

1. any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae

Familiarity information: CHARACID used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CHARACID (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

characid; characin; characin fish

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

cypriniform fish (a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "characid"):

tetra (brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes)

cardinal tetra; Paracheirodon axelrodi (small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Columbia)

caribe; pirana; piranha (small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals)

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

Characidae; family Characidae (tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America)

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