English for Beginners Practical English Travel English Telephone English Banking English Accounting English Dictionary
Online English learning Courses
    courses   dictionary
Double-click any word on the page to look it up in the dictionary.

Audio English.net » Dictionary » G » G ... Gag Line

GADIDAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gadidae mean? 

GADIDAE (noun)
  The noun GADIDAE has 1 sense:

1. large family of important mostly marine food fishes

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GADIDAE (noun)


Sense 1Gadidae [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Large family of important mostly marine food fishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Gadidae; Gadidae

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

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Gadidae"):

genus Molva; Molva (ling)

genus Urophycis; Urophycis; genus Merluccius; Merluccius (hakes)

genus Pollachius; Pollachius (pollack)

genus Melanogrammus; Melanogrammus (haddock)

genus Lota; Lota (burbot)

genus Merlangus; Merlangus (whitings)

Gadus; genus Gadus (type genus of the Gadidae: the typical codfishes)

gadoid; gadoid fish (a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae)

Brosmius; genus Browmius (cusk)

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

Gadiformes; order Gadiformes (cods, haddocks, grenadiers; in some classifications considered equivalent to the order Anacanthini)


 Learn English with... Proverbs of the week 
"Like father like son." (English proverb)

"Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way." (Native American proverb, Blackfoot)

"The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss." (Arabic proverb)

"God's mills mill slowly, but surely." (Czech proverb)

 GADIDAE: related words searches 

Page delivered in 0.0257 seconds




AudioEnglish Definitions... Just One Click Away!
Now you can lookup any word in our dictionary, right from the search box in your browser! Click here to add the AudioEnglish.net dictionary to your list of search providers.
IE 8.0 Tip: simply highlight a word from any webpage, click on the blue Accelerator icon that appears above your selection, click All Accelerators and then select Search with AudioEnglish.net Dictionary.

Dictionary: go up
Dictionary: go down


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Other popular searches:






Add to favorites