FAMILY NATICIDAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Naticidae mean? 

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

1. moonshells

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY NATICIDAE (noun)

Meaning:

Moonshells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Naticidae; Naticidae

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

mollusk family (a family of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "family Naticidae"):

moon shell; moonshell (marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires)

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

class Gasteropoda; class Gastropoda; Gasteropoda; Gastropoda (snails and slugs and their relatives)