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FAMILY GASTEROSTEIDAE

• FAMILY GASTEROSTEIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY GASTEROSTEIDAE has 1 sense:

1. sticklebacks

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

• FAMILY GASTEROSTEIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

family Gasterosteidae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Sticklebacks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Gasterosteidae; Gasterosteidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "family Gasterosteidae"):

prickleback; stickleback (small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research)

Gasterosteus; genus gasterosteus (type genus of the family Gasterosteidae)

Holonyms ("family Gasterosteidae" 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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Useful links:
Definition of genus gasterosteus
Definition of order Solenichthyes
Definition of fish family
Pronunciation of prickleback
Definition of Solenichthyes

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