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CLINIDAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Clinidae mean?

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

1. viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas

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

Dictionary entry details

• CLINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Clinidae; family Clinidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Clinidae"):

clinid; clinid fish (mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds)

Chaenopsis; genus Chaenopsis (a genus of fish of the family Clinidae including pikeblennies)

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

Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)

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