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FAMILY CHLOROPHTHALMIDAE

English dictionary: Word overview

FAMILY CHLOROPHTHALMIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY CHLOROPHTHALMIDAE has 1 sense:

1. small family of soft-finned bottom-dwellers with large eyes; relatives of lizardfishes

  Familiarity information: FAMILY CHLOROPHTHALMIDAE used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


FAMILY CHLOROPHTHALMIDAE (noun)


Sense 1family Chlorophthalmidae [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Small family of soft-finned bottom-dwellers with large eyes; relatives of lizardfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Chlorophthalmidae; family Chlorophthalmidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Chlorophthalmidae"):

greeneye (bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster)

Holonyms ("family Chlorophthalmidae" is a member of...):

Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)


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