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GENUS AMMODYTES

• GENUS AMMODYTES (noun)
The noun GENUS AMMODYTES has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Ammodytidae

Familiarity information: GENUS AMMODYTES used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS AMMODYTES (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Ammodytidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ammodytes; genus Ammodytes

Hypernyms ("genus Ammodytes" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Ammodytes"):

launce; sand eel; sand lance; sand launce (very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches)

Holonyms ("genus Ammodytes" is a member of...):

Ammodytidae; family Ammodytidae (sand lances)

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