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FAMILY PORTUNIDAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does family Portunidae mean?

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

1. swimming crabs

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

Dictionary entry details

• FAMILY PORTUNIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

family Portunidae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Swimming crabs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Portunidae; Portunidae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Portunidae"):

swimming crab (marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming)

genus Portunus; Portunus (type genus of the family Portunidae)

genus Ovalipes; Ovalipes (a genus of Portunidae)

Callinectes; genus Callinectes (New World blue crabs)

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

Brachyura; suborder Brachyura (an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface)

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